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Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia: Globalization as Legislation Naoi, Megumi (University of California, San Diego)
Building Legislative Coalitions for Free Trade in Asia: Globalization as Legislation
Naoi, Megumi (University of California, San Diego)
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.
230 pages, 17 b/w illus. 27 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 20, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107037038 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 230 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 238 × 22 mm · 506 g |
| Language | English |