Constituent Interest Group Influences on U.S. Trade Policies Since the Advent of the WTO

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Interest Group ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Constituent Interest

International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions, and Mobility. By Michael J Hiscox. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp xiv, 209. $49.50, cloth; $18.95, paper.

2003 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 306-307
Author(s):  
Jonathan Pincus
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Factor Mobility ◽  
Congressional Voting ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
High Tariff

This short book has a novel thesis, which is that the degree of factor mobility at the national level influenced the politics of foreign-trade policies. When factor mobility was high, tariff legislation was class legislation. When mobility was low, tariffs were decided by interest-group competition. Michael Hiscox brings data on mobility to bear on the history of foreign trade policies of the six countries—the United States, Britain, France, Sweden, Canada, and Australia—over the last one or two hundred years or so, devoting a chapter to each. He then tests his ideas quantitatively on U.S. congressional voting between 1924 and 1994, finding that, when the indicators of factor mobility were low, an “interest group theory” better explains U.S. tariff politics than does a “class legislation theory” (and the reverse when mobility was high).

Special Interest Group 13 (Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders)

ASHA Leader ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Suiter ◽  
Laurie Sterling ◽  
Lynne Brady Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Interest Group ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Swallowing Disorders ◽  
Special Interest Group ◽  
Group 13
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