Trading Blows: Party Competition and U.S. Trade Policy in a Globalizing Era

For the past two decades, trade policy has been high on the American political agenda, thanks to the growing integration of the United States into the global economy and the wealth of debate this development has sparked. Although scholars have explored many aspects of U.S. trade policy, there has been little study of the role played by party politics. With Trading Blows, James Shoch fills that gap.
Shoch offers detailed case studies of almost all of the major trade issues of the Reagan, Bus...