Don’t buy from me Argentina: Politics, economics, and trade liberalization in Argentina, 1992–2001 |
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Authors: | Jeffrey Drope |
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Abstract: | Recently, while opening their markets to international trade through tariff reduction, developing nations have been quietly
adopting nontariff measures that impose new barriers on imports. This study contributes to a literature that assesses reactions
to recent widespread economic reform, particularly in the developing world. While analysts have identified many determinants
of the reform process, we are only beginning to assess the factors that shape its twists, turns, and even reversals. In particular,
we do not yet have a clear understanding of the determinants of governments’ treatment of different groups and actors in this
process. This article examines these reactions to trade liberalization in Argentina, an important middle-income nation, by
drawing upon the significant body of theoretical and empirical literature on trade policy in developed nations that demonstrates
that both economic and political factors condition policy implementation. Utilizing a data set of nontariff trade disputes
from 1992 to 2001, the analysis employs probit maximum likelihood techniques to assess the relationship between trade policy
outputs and economic and political factors. The findings suggest that economic factors, including import flows, and political
factors such as the breadth of representation appear to condition trade policy decisions in Argentina. The results also suggest
that overall macroeconomic context affects policy outputs.
Jeffrey Drope is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Miami. His recent articles and
current research examine the political economy of trade policy and, more generally, how interests and institutions interact
to generate policy.
I thank Wendy Hansen, Ken Roberts, and theSCID reviewers and editors for valuable comments, the Latin American Institute at the University of New Mexico for financial support,
and Pablo Sanguinetti for helpful introductions in Argentina. |
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