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Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies, and International Trade
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Relatively little research has focused on whether countries' political institutions affect their international trade relations. We address this issue by analyzing the relationship between regime type and trade policy. In a formal model of commercial policy, we establish that the ratification responsibility of the legislature in democratic states leads pairs of democracies to set trade barriers at a lower level than mixed country-pairs (composed of an autocracy and a democracy). We test this hypothesis by analyzing the effects of regime type on trade during the period from 1960 to 1990. The results of this analysis accord with our argument: Democratic pairs have had much more open trade relations than mixed pairs.
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- Authors
- Mansfield, E. D., Milner, H. V., & Rosendorff, B. P.
- Venue
- American Political Science Review
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2000-06
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 305-321
- ISSN
- 0003-0554 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5943
- OpenAlex
- W3020877949
- Cited by
- 521
- References
- 72
- FWCI
- 24.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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