Who Votes for Free Trade and When?: Geopolitics as the Sources of Legislative Preferences on Free Trade Agreements

• In Event: Domestic Politics and IPE Outcomes: From Trade Agreements to Sanctions

Brief Overview

Using voting records of the U.S. House Representatives on all the bills or amendments related to free trade agreements, we find that the geostrategic importance of potential trading partner has a substantial effect on voting for trade agreements.

Authors

• Joonseok Yang, University of California, Irvine

• Sung Eun Kim, Columbia University in the City of New York