THE POLITICAL-SUPPORT APPROACH TO PROTECTION

Wilfred J. Ethier ()
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Wilfred J. Ethier: Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104–6297, USA

Global Journal of Economics (GJE), 2012, vol. 01, issue 01, 1-14

Abstract: This paper offers a selective interpretation of the literature on the political-support component of the political economy of international trade policy. Much of this literature is characterized either by a discrepancy between what policymakers say they are doing and how the theory models their actions (the Cognitive Dissonance problem) or by a lack of a detailed microeconomic foundation (the Black Box problem).

Keywords: Political support function; protection for sale; cognitive dissonance problem; black box problem; F02; F13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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