Conflict Amid Consensus in American Trade Policy Contributor(s): Gibson, Martha L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0878407944 ISBN-13: 9780878407941 Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Binding Type: Paperback Published: September 2000 Annotation: Americans have witnessed inconsistent and seemingly dramatic turnabouts in legislators' attitudes toward trade, with strong bipartisan support for free trade and the Uruguay Round in one instant and heated debate over participation in the World Tarde Organization the next. Martha L. Gibson systematically traces the competing forces that interject conflict into an overall consensus on the value of a liberalized trade policy. Cutting through the tangled web of congressional politics, Gibson shows why it is impossible to understand trade legislation without first understanding how electoral politics and the institutional rules of Congress distort legislators' interests, incentives, and policy goals. Gibson's book clearly show that trade legislation is not made in a vacuum but is just one in a series of simultaneous games with competing goals in which legislators engage to satisfy the conflicting demands of constituents. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - Business & Economics | International - Economics - Political Science | American Government - General |
Dewey: 382.309 |
LCCN: 00026373 |
Age Level: 22-UP |
Grade Level: 17-UP |
Series: American Governance and Public Policy |
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.03" W x 8.98" L (0.77 lbs) 213 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Choice 03/01/2001 pg. 1344 |
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Publisher Description: Americans have witnessed inconsistent and seemingly dramatic turnabouts in legislators' attitudes toward trade, with strong bipartisan support for free trade and the Uruguay Round in one instant and heated debate over participation in the World Trade Organization the next. Martha L. Gibson systematically traces the competing forces that interject conflict into an overall consensus on the value of a liberalized trade policy. Cutting through the tangled web of congressional politics, Gibson shows why it is impossible to understand trade legislation without first understanding how electoral politics and the institutional rules of Congress distort legislators' interests, incentives, and policy goals. Gibson's book clearly shows that trade legislation is not made in a vacuum but is just one in a series of simultaneous games with competing goals in which legislators engage to satisfy the conflicting demands of constituents. |
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