The dominant approach to the study of international political economy assumes that the
policy preferences of individuals and groups reflect economic self-interest. Recent research …

Mainstream political economy has tended to treat the family as a unit when examining the
distributional consequences of labor market institutions and of public policy. In a world with …

Existing research on foreign direct investment (FDI) focuses on how politics influences the
supply of FDI inflows. In this article I shift focus to the demand for FDI inflows within recipient …

Participation of women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in international
trade is gaining more importance in the transformation of institutional changes. Although …

The authors survey economists in the United States holding membership in the American
Economic Association (AEA) to determine if there are significant differences in views …

This book is the first comprehensive study of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization.
Political economy FDI research has long focused on how host-country politics influence the …

In this paper, we provide one of the first systematic analyses of gender's effect on trade
attitudes. We draw on a unique representative national survey of American workers that …

The Politics of Fair Trade argues that fair trade is more than just labels on specialty coffee
products. Nor is fair trade just protectionism in disguise. Rather, fair trade is opposition to …

We address a central question about the integration of developing countries into the global
economy: what factors affect public support for such globalization. Do public preferences …

What determines public support for trade liberalization? Scholars of international political
economy have generally focused on the effects of openness on employment via individuals' …