Every Firm for Itself - Corporate Lobbying and the Domestic Politics of Intra-Industry Trade

This book is for people interested in how dramatic changes in the way countries trade have radically changed trade politics in the US and EU. This book shows how contemporary trading patterns advantage large, multinational firms and disadvantage small firms. It also helps explain the growing public backlash to hyperglobalization.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The rise of intra-industry trade in the postwar trading regime; 3. The domestic politics of intra-industry trade: a theoretical model; 4. Cleavage and coalition in US trade politics; 5. Lobbying over trade policy in the European Union; 6. Intra-industry trade and protection in developed democracies; 7. The politics of TPP and TTIP in the United States; 8. Conclusion; Appendices.

About the author

Mary Anne Madeira is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University. She was a Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. She is the co-author, with James A. Caporaso of Globalization, Institutions and Governance (2011).

Product details

• Authors: Mary Anne (Lehigh University Madeira, Madeira Mary Anne
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.08.2025
• EAN: 9781009651264
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0965126-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LAW / International, LAW / Public, International business, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, United States of America, USA, EU (European Union), International economic & trade law, International trade and commerce, Public international law: economic and trade