Readings

WEEK # TOPICS READINGS
Introduction
1 Introduction (no readings)
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Background and Theoretical Orientation

Basic Economics of Trade Slides (PDF)

Buy at Amazon Frankel, Jeffrey. "Globalization of the Economy." In Governance in a Globalizing World. Edited by Joseph S. Nye and John D. Donahue. Brookings Institution Press, 2000, pp. 45–71. ISBN: 9780815764076. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Frieden, Jeffry, and Lisa Martin. "International Political Economy: The State of the Sub–Discipline." In Political Science: The State of the Discipline, Centennial Edition. Edited by Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. ISBN: 9780393051421.

Garrett, Geoffrey. "The Causes of Globalization." Comparative Political Studies 33, no. 6-7 (2000): 941–92.

Milner, Helen. "The Political Economy of International Trade." Annual Review of Political Science 2, no. 1 (1999): 91–114.

Buy at Amazon Frieden, Jeffry A. Prologue and chapters 1–5 in Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. ISBN: 9780393058086.

Section 1: International Trade
3 Industries, Voters, and Cleavages

Rogowski, Ronald. "Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Trade." The American Political Science Review 81, no. 4 (1987): 1121–37. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF - 2.1MB)

Buy at Amazon Magee, Stephen P., William A. Brock, and Leslie Young. "Three Simple Tests of the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem." In Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Policy Theory: Political Economy in General Equilibrium. Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 101–10. ISBN: 9780521377003.

Hiscox, Michael J. "Commerce, Coalitions, and Factor Mobility: Evidence from Congressional Votes on Trade Legislation." The American Political Science Review 96, no. 3 (2002): 593–608.

Hays, Jude, Sean Ehrlich, and Clint Peinhardt. "Government Spending and Public Support for Trade in the OECD: An Empirical Test of the Embedded Liberalism Thesis." International Organization 59, no. 2 (2005): 473–94.

Scheve, Kenneth F., and Matthew J. Slaughter. "What Determines Individual Trade–Policy Preferences?" Journal of International Economics 54, no. 2 (2001): 267–92.

Mansfield, Edward, and Diana Mutz. "Support for Free Trade: Self–Interest, Sociotropic Politics, and Out–Group Anxiety." International Organization 63, no. 3 (2009): 425–57.

4 Institutional and Structural Perspectives

Chase, Kerry. "Economic Interests and Regional Trading Arrangements: The Case of NAFTA." International Organization 57, no. 1 (2003): 137–74.

Mansfield, Edward, and Eric Reinhardt. "Multilateral Determinants of Regionalism: The Effects of GATT/WTO on the Formation of Regional Trading Arrangements." International Organization 57, no. 4 (2003): 829–62. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Hiscox, Michael J. "The Magic Bullet? The RTAA, Institutional Reform and Trade Liberalization." International Organization 53, no. 4 (1999): 669–98.

Kono, Daniel Y. "Optimal Obfuscation: Democracy and Trade Policy Transparency." The American Political Science Review 100, no. 3 (2006): 369–84.

Milner, Helen V., and Keiko Kubota. "Why the Move to Free Trade? Democracy and Trade Policy in the Developing Countries." International Organization 59, no. 1 (2005): 107–43.

Buy at Amazon Frieden, Jeffry A. Chapters 6–10 in Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. ISBN: 9780393058086.

Additional Readings on Trade

Alt, James E., Jeffry Frieden, et al. "The Political Economy of International Trade: Enduring Puzzles and an Agenda for Inquiry." Comparative Political Studies 29, no. 6 (1996): 689–717.

Hainmueller, Jens, and Michael Hiscox. "Learning to Love Globalization: Education and Individual Attitudes Toward International Trade." International Organization 60, no. 2 (2006): 469–98.

Grossman, Gene, and Elhanan Helpman. "Protection for Sale." The American Economic Review 84, no. 4 (1994): 833–50.

Krasner, Stephen D. "State Power and the Structure of International Trade." World Politics 28, no. 3 (1976): 317–47.

Hiscox, Michael. "Class Versus Industry Cleavages: Inter-Industry Factor Mobility and the Politics of Trade." International Organization 55, no. 1 (2001): 1–46.

Davis, Christina. "International Institutions and Issue Linkage: Building Support for Agricultural Trade Liberalization." The American Political Science Review 98, no. 1 (2004): 153–69.

McGillivray, Fiona. "Party Discipline as a Determinant of the Endogenous Formation of Tariffs." American Journal of Political Science 41, no. 2 (1997): 584–607.

Buy at Amazon Irwin, Douglas. Against the Tide. Princeton University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780691058962. [Preview with Google Books]

Milgrom, Paul, Douglas C. North, et al. "The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs." Economics and Politics 2, no. 1 (1990): 1–23.

Busch, Marc. "Overlapping Institutions, Forum Shopping, and Dispute Settlement in International Trade." International Organization 61, no. 4 (2007): 735–61.

Mansfield, Edward, Helen Milner, et al. "Free to Trade: Democracies, Autocracies and International Trade." The American Political Science Review 94, no. 2 (2000): 305–21.

Lohmann, Susanne, and Sharyn O'Halloran. "Divided Government and U.S. Trade Policy: Theory and Evidence." International Organization 48, no. 4 (1994): 595–632.

Section 2: International Monetary and Financial Relations
5 Theoretical Orientation and Background

Frieden, Jeffry A. "Invested Interests: The Politics of National Economic Policies in a World of Global Finance." International Organization 45, no. 4 (1991): 425–51.

Broz, J. Lawrence, and Jeffry Frieden. "The Political Economy of International Monetary Relations." Annual Review of Political Science 4 (2001): 317–43.

Bernhard, William, J. Lawrence Broz, et al. "The Political Economy of Monetary Institutions." International Organization 56, no. 4 (2002): 693–723.

Neely, Christopher J. "An Introduction to Capital Controls." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 81, no. 6 (1999): 13–30. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Buy at Amazon Frieden, Jeffry A. Chapters 12, 15, and 20 in Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. ISBN: 9780393058086.

6 Exchange Rate Regimes

Broz, J. Lawrence. "Political System Transparency and Monetary Commitment Regimes." International Organization 56, no. 4 (2002): 861–87.

Bearce, David. "Societal Principals, Partisan Agents, and Monetary Policy Outcomes." International Organization 57, no. 2 (2003): 373–410.

Bernhard, William, and David Leblang. "Democratic Institutions and Exchange–Rate Commitments." International Organization 53, no. 1 (1999): 71–97.

Singer, David Andrew. "Migrant Remittances and Exchange Rate Regimes in the Developing World." The American Political Science Review 104, no. 2 (2010): 307–23.

Broz, J. Lawrence, Jeffry Frieden, et al. "Exchange Rate Policy Attitudes: Direct Evidence from Survey Data." IMF Staff Papers 55, no. 3 (2008): 417–44.

Chang, Roberto. "Understanding Recent Crises in Emerging Markets." Economic Review 84, no. 2 (1999): 6–16.

7 International Capital Mobility and Domestic Policymaking

Quinn, Dennis, and Carla Inclan. "The Origins of Financial Openness: A Study of Current and Capital Account Liberalization." American Journal of Political Science 41, no. 3 (1997): 771–813.

Quinn, Dennis, and A. Maria Toyoda. "Ideology and Voter Preferences as Determinants of Financial Globalization." American Journal of Political Science 51, no. 2 (2007): 344–63.

Simmons, Beth, and Zachary Elkins. "The Globalization of Liberalization: Policy Diffusion in the International Political Economy." The American Political Science Review 98, no. 1 (2004): 171–89.

Buy at Amazon Mosley, Layna. Chapters 1–8 in Global Capital and National Governments (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780521521628. [Preview with Google Books]

8 Foreign Direct Investment

Frieden, Jeffry A. "International Investment and Colonial Control: A New Interpretation." International Organization 48, no. 4 (1994): 559–93.

Jensen, Nathan. "Democratic Governance and Multinational Corporations: Political Regimes and Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment." International Organization 57, no. 3 (2003): 587–616.

Li, Quan, and A. Resnick. "Reversal of Fortunes: Democratic Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Developing Countries." International Organization 57, no. 1 (2003): 175–211.

Scheve, Kenneth, and Matthew J. Slaughter. "Economic Insecurity and the Globalization of Production." American Journal of Political Science 48, no. 4 (2004): 662–74.

Kobrin, Stephen J. "Testing the Bargaining Hypothesis in the Manufacturing Sector in Developing Countries." International Organization 41, no. 4 (1987): 609–38.

Additional Readings on International Monetary and Financial Relations

Buy at Amazon Helleiner, Eric. States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s (Cornell Studies in Political Economy). Cornell University Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780801428593.

Buy at Amazon Frankel, Jeffrey A. No Single Currency Regime Is Right for All Countries or at All Times (Essays in International Economics). Princeton University, 1999, pp. 1–45. ISBN: 9780881651225.

Buy at Amazon Simmons, Beth. Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policy During the Interwar Years. Princeton University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780691017105. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Eichengreen, Barry. Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (Second Edition). Princeton University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780691139371 [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Katzenstein, Peter. Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe (Cornell Studies in Political Economy). Cornell University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780801493263. [Preview with Google Books]

Bordo, Michael. "The Gold Standard, Bretton Woods, and Other Monetary Regimes: An Historical Appraisal." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 75, no. 2 (1993): 123–99.

Goodman, John, and Louis Pauly. "The Obsolescence of Capital Controls? Economic Management in an Age of Global Markets." World Politics 46, no. 1 (1993): 50–82.

Frankel, Jeffrey, and Andrew Rose. "An Estimate of the Effect of Common Currencies on Trade and Income." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117, no. 2 (2002): 437–66.

Obstfeld, Maurice. "The Global Capital Markets: Benefactor or Menace?." NBER Working Paper W6559, May 1998. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Buy at Amazon Frieden, Jeffry. "Economic Integration and the Politics of Monetary Policy in the United States." In Internationalization and Domestic Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). Edited by Robert O. Keohane and Helen V. Milner. Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521565875. [Preview with Google Books]

Henisz, Witold. "The Institutional Environment for Multinational Investment." Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 16, no. 2 (2000): 334–64.

Markusen, James R. "The Boundaries of Multinational Enterprises and the Theory of International Trade." The Journal of Economic Perspectives 9, no. 2 (1995): 169–89.

Section 3: Other Topics
9 Migration

Buy at Amazon Hanson, Gordon H., Kenneth Scheve, and Matthew Slaughter. "Individual Preferences Over High–Skilled Immigration in the United States." In Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems, and Policies. Edited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon Hanson. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780195382433.

Hainmueller, Jens, and Michael J. Hiscox. "Attitudes Towards Highly Skilled and Low–Skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment." The American Political Science Review 104, no. 1 (2010): 61–84.

Leblang, David. "Familiarity Breeds Investment: Diaspora Networks and International Investment." The American Political Science Review 104, no. 3 (2010): 584–600.

———. Harnessing the Diaspora: The Political Economy of Dual Citizenship. Working Paper, University of Virginia, 2010. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Money, Jeanette. "No Vacancy: The Political Geography of Immigration Control in Advanced Industrial Countries." International Organization 51, no. 4 (1997): 685–720.

10 Conflict and Economic Interdepence

Oneal, John, and Bruce Russett. "The Kantian Peace: The Pacific Benefits of Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, 1885–1992." World Politics 52, no. 1 (1999): 1–37.

Brooks, Stephen. "The Globalization of Production and the Changing Benefits of Conquest." Journal of Conflict Resolution 43, no. 5 (1999): 646–70.

Fordham, Ben. "Revisionism Reconsidered: Exports and American Intervention in World War I." International Organization 61, no. 2 (2007): 277–310.

Rowe, David M. "World Economic Expansion and National Security in Pre–World War I Europe." International Organization 53, no. 2 (1999): 195–231.

Schulz, Kenneth, and Barry Weingast. "The Democratic Advantage: Institutional Foundations of Financial Power in International Competition." International Organization 57, no. 1 (2003): 3–42.

11 Rights, Standards, and Regulation

Mattli, Walter, and Tim Buthe. "Setting International Standards: Technological Rationality or Primacy of Power?" World Politics 56, no. 1 (2003): 1–42.

Putnam, Tonya. "Courts Without Borders: Domestic Sources of U.S. Extraterritoriality in the Regulatory Sphere." International Organization 63, no. 3 (2009): 459–90.

Hafner–Burton, Emilie. "Trading Human Rights: How Preferential Trade Agreements Influence Government Repression." International Organization 59, no. 3 (2005): 593–629.

Copelovitch, Mark S., and David Andrew Singer. "Financial Regulation, Monetary Policy, and Inflation in the Industrialized World." The Journal of Politics 70, no. 3 (2008): 663–80.

Simmons, Beth. "The International Politics of Harmonization: The Case of Capital Market Regulation." International Organization 55, no. 3 (2001): 589–620.

Additional Readings on International Financial Regulation

Kapstein, Ethan B. "Resolving the Regulator's Dilemma: International Coordination of Banking Regulations." International Organization 43, no. 2 (1989): 323–47.

Oatley, Thomas, and Robert Nabors. "Redistributive Cooperation: Market Failures, Wealth Transfers, and the Basle Accord." International Organization 52, no. 1 (1998): 35–54.

Singer, David Andrew. "Capital Rules: The Domestic Politics of International Regulatory Harmonization." International Organization 58, no. 3 (2004): 531–65.

12 Submission/Class Discussion of Research Design Papers (no readings)