The Determinants of US Congressional Voting on the Trade and Development Act of 2000

Baban Hasnat and Charles Callahan, III
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Baban Hasnat: Department of Business Administration and Economics, State University of New York College at Brockport, U.S.A.
Charles Callahan, III: Department of Business Administration and Economics, State University of New York College at Brockport, U.S.A.

International Journal of Business and Economics, 2004, vol. 3, issue 1, 35-44

Abstract: The paper provides an empirical examination of the determinants of support for the Trade and Development Act of 2000 (TDA2000) in the United States Congress. We estimate a logistic regression model and control for both economic and political influences. We find that business political action committee contributions to lawmakers, the percentage of the African-American population in their constituency, the percentage of the Hispanic population in their constituency, and the skill level of the constituents had a significant positive influence on lawmakers voting in favor of TDA2000. Democratic party affiliation, import-competing industries in the constituency, and labor union membership had a significant negative influence on the TDA2000 vote.

Keywords: trade and development act of 2000; trade bill; trade policy; congressional voting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 F13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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