Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia - Globalization As Legislation

This book argues that politicians, especially party leaders, liberalize trade by buying off legislative support with side-payments.

List of contents

Part I. Building Open Economy Coalitions: 1. Optimal use of pork, policy, and institutional reforms; Part II. Empirical Evidence: 2. Use of pork as side-payment; 3. Pro-loser policy during hard times; 4. Helping losers survive elections: use of institutional reforms; 5. Japanese legislators in rival regions; 6. Thai legislators' position-taking on foreign retail investment; Part III. Discussion: 7. Globalization as legislation: discussion.

About the author

Megumi Naoi is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Her work has been published in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and International Organization, where she serves as an editorial board member. She has been a visiting research fellow at Keio University and Waseda University in Tokyo, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, and a pre-doctoral fellow at Princeton's Neihaus Center for Globalization and Governance.

Summary

What accounts for the large reduction in trade barriers among new democracies in Asia after World War II? Using new data from Japan and Thailand, this book provides a surprising answer: politicians, especially party leaders, liberalized trade by buying off legislative support with side-payments such as pork barrel projects.

Product details

• Authors: Megumi Naoi, Professor Megumi Naoi, Professor Megumi (University of California Naoi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9781107037038
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03703-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, Sociology, Globalization, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Political corruption, Politics & government, Political Economy, East Asia, Far East, Domestic trade