Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies, and International Trade Export

@article{citeulike:840928, abstract = {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.}, author = {Mansfield, Edward D. and Milner, Helen V. and Rosendorff, Peter B.}, citeulike-article-id = {840928}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2586014}, journal = {The American Political Science Review}, keywords = {politicaleconomy, trade}, number = {2}, pages = {305--321}, posted-at = {2008-01-15 00:07:12}, priority = {2}, title = {Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies, and International Trade}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2586014}, volume = {94}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:840928 L3 - citeulike-article-id:840928 N2 - 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. IS - 2 JF - The American Political Science Review EP - 321 TI - Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies, and International Trade VL - 94 SP - 305 KW - politicaleconomy KW - trade AU - Mansfield, Edward AU - Milner, Helen AU - Rosendorff, Peter PY - 2000/// UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/2586014 ER -