The Political Economy of International Trade

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 689-717 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES E. ALT ◽  
JEFFRY FRIEDEN ◽  
MICHAEL J. GILLIGAN ◽  
DANI RODRIK ◽  
RONALD ROGOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Future Study ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Trade Politics ◽  
Economics Of Institutions

A similar set of concepts has been central to the literatures on the formation of trade policy coalitions and the “new economics of institutions”: the political and economic consequences of the degree to which assets are specific to a particular economic activity. In this survey, the authors take the necessary first step of summarizing the main findings of these two literatures and then suggest ways in which the issue might be joined. In addition to providing a more coherent understanding of the findings of these two literatures and some new directions for them, the authors show that many puzzles remain in the field of trade politics—puzzles for which there are no appealing answers or, where there are answers, no strong evidence in support of them. This essay, then, in addition to being a theoretical review of the literature, puts forward an agenda for future study of international trade politics.

The Political Economy of Trade Openness Reform: Consequences of Reform for Russian Border Regions

2011 ◽  
pp. 118-138
Author(s):  
N. Ryzhova
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Income Redistribution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Trade Reform ◽  
Border Regions

The article deals with the incentives for increasing international trade centralization and restricting trade border regions openness in reformed economy. Two groups of incentives are determined in terms of new political economy approaches: fear of separatism and reluctance of income redistribution. The situation with the radical international trade reform in Russia, followed by correction of trade openness, illustrates key moments in the concepts.

Sociospatial Transformations in the ‘Postsocialist’ Periphery: The Case of Maputo, Mozambique

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 1463-1491 ◽  
Author(s):  
J D Sidaway ◽  
M Power
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Third World ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Capital City ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Portuguese Colonialism ◽  
Do So

As Mozambique was one of a number of Third World states that embraced Marxism-Leninism during the 1970s, the establishment and subsequent collapse of a socialist development project since independence in 1975 has had profound social, political, and economic consequences. Against these contexts, and through a chronological account which begins with the impacts of Portuguese colonialism and Mozambican nationalist responses, we analyse the contradictory impact of political and economic changes accompanying colonialism, independence, attempted socialist transformation, and the end of socialism in Mozambique as they are mediated through the built environment of the Mozambican capital city of Maputo. The combined political, social, and cultural facets within these transformations and continuities are evident throughout the account and we specify some of the ways in which these are intertwined with the political economy of urbanization. In the conclusion we reconsider what the changing trajectory of Maputo represents in global and comparative terms. We do so with reference to debates about the changing forms of international capitalist regulation and the reconfiguration of dependency.

Doha in the Dumps: The Bilateral Option. Whither Canadian Trade Policy

Eurostudia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Dymond
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Bilateral Agreements ◽  
Trade Politics ◽  
Bilateral Negotiations

Abstract This article takes Canadian trade politics in order to demonstrate that the mixture of multi- and bilateral negotiations is a solution just for yesterday’s problems. First the article provides an account of the present situation of the Doha Development Round. Second it discusses Canada’s interest in bilateral agreements before it analyzes the present conditions for international trade. The final section is dedicated to the political options resulting from that situation.

Accounting for the Corporate: An Analytic Framework for Understanding Corporations in Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 232-240
Author(s):  
Kathryn Moeller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Political ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Analytic Framework

Drawing on an integrative review of the literature on the privatization of education and an empirical case study of technology corporations in education, this article examines the corporate within the political economy of education. It argues that by analytically conceiving of corporations under the banner of the private sphere and, correspondingly, by subsuming the processes of corporatization within the processes of privatization, the literature on privatization conceals the very specific role and influence of corporations. The article puts forward an analytic framework for researching and theorizing corporations in education. How the field of education conceives of corporate actors and their related practices, processes, and power relations is analytically and empirically significant for ensuring equitable, transparent, and accountable educational systems in the United States and globally.

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