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Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments - Softcover

Rogowski, Ronald

 
9780691023304: Commerce and Coalitions: How Trade Affects Domestic Political Alignments

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Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient world and the sixteenth century, he finds a surprising degree of confirmation and some intriguing exceptions.

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Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggest a startling new answer: when international trade expands, owners of locally abundant factors in each country assert themselves more, while owners of scarce factors become defensive.

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