Trade Policy among Authoritarian Regimes

• In Event: Trade Policy and Protectionism in a Globalizing World

Brief Overview

What explains variations in product-level protectionism among authoritarian regimes? I argue that trade policymaking in autocracies is shaped by top leaders’ need to balance the threat of revolt by the masses and the threat of coup by regime elites.

Author

• Wenyan Deng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology