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Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies, and International Trade

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  • Mansfield, Edward D.
  • Milner, Helen V.
  • Rosendorff, B. Peter

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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.

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  • Mansfield, Edward D. & Milner, Helen V. & Rosendorff, B. Peter, 2000. "Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies, and International Trade," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 94(2), pages 305-321, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:94:y:2000:i:02:p:305-321_22
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