Trading blows
Subtitle: party competition and U.S. trade policy in a globalizing era
By: James Shoch.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Free trade -- Political aspects -- United States; Political parties -- United States; United States -- Commercial policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Parties and trade policy: a theoretical framework; title: Trade policy and party politics from the Civil War to 1980; title: The first Reagan administration: democratic pressure and White House retreat; title: Partisanship heats up: the trade policy explosion of 1985-1986; title: The one-hundredth congress: trade legislation and presidential politics; title: The Bush years: opening Japan, negotiating NAFTA; title: Clinton's first two years in office: trade activism on all fronts; title: Trade liberalization grinds to a halt, 1995-1998; title: Trade liberalization set back again, then renewed?: The battle in Seattle and PNTR with China.