Big Business, the State, and Free Trade
Subtitle: Constructing Coalitions in Mexico
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780521781688
Subjects: International economics; Political economy; Politics/International Relations; International - Economics; Free trade; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Mexico; Government & Business; International Relations - Trade & Tariffs; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Mexico--Commercial policy; Political Science / General; Commercial policy; General; Business and politics; Canada
First sentence: The inauguration of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on January 1, 1994, ushered in a new era in trade relations for Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
Description: "Big Business, the State, and Free Trade develops a general explanation of trade policy coalition politics and uses it to explain the opening of Mexico's economy. It emphasizes the role of business and state actors in constructing competing trade policy coalitions. The book traces the formation and relative strength of a protectionist and a free trade coalition across a series of policy episodes from the 1970s to the 1990s. It pays particular attention to NAFTA, which consolidated a strong free trade coalition between big business and state elites. The conditions that strengthened the free trade coalition have also contributed to higher levels of political and economic instability since 1994. Coalition politics is likely to become more important as Mexico's political system democratizes."--BOOK JACKET.