Title Building legislative coalitions for free trade in Asia : globalization as legislation / Megumi Naoi

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015

Click on the following:
EBSCO eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource 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 co-partisan legistrators 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. The political Foundations of an Open Economy: discussion 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. Trade liberalization was a legislative triumph, not an executive achievement. This finding challenges the conventional "insulation" argument, which posits that insulating executives from special interest groups and voters is the key to successful trade liberalization. By contrast, this book demonstrates that party leaders built open economy coalitions with legislators by feeding legislators' rent-seeking desires with side-payments rather than depriving their appetites. This book unravels the political foundations of open economy"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 13, 2015) Subject Political planning -- Japan Political planning -- Thailand Political leadership -- Japan Political leadership -- Thailand Free trade -- Political aspects -- Japan Free trade -- Political aspects -- Thailand Finance, Public -- Japan Finance, Public -- Thailand POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch. Expenditures, Public Finance, Public Free trade -- Political aspects Political leadership Political planning SUBJECT Japan -- Appropriations and expenditures Thailand -- Appropriations and expenditures Subject Japan Thailand Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316318805 131631880X 9781139583435 1139583433 9781316332184 1316332187

  Permalink