Politicians and protection: Tariffs and elections in Australia

John Conybeare

Public Choice, 1984, vol. 43, issue 2, 203-209

Abstract: An index of manufacturing industry tariff protection is calculated for each Australian federal electoral division and used to test for the presence of voting factors in the electoral incidence of tariff protection. There is a strong positive relationship between the level of tariffs and the Labor vote in an electorate, though this is more likely to be evidence for the effect of levels of manufacturing activity than for systematic electoral manipulation of tariffs. Smaller samples of electorates do suggest that governments shift the largest tariff increases into electorates which they won at the previous election. Copyright Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1984

Date: 1984
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