The Political Economy of Protection: Theory and the Chilean by Daniel Lederman

By Daniel Lederman

This e-book explains why nations, specially constructing nations, swap their alternate regulations over the process background. It does so via an interdisciplinary technique which borrows analyses from either political technology and economics.

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These authors argued that idea-based theories of the persistence of protectionism in LDCs could not explain the rampant protectionism in these economies. In contrast, in this model manufacturing interests have much to gain from lobbying, and the revenue-raising motivation makes the State (policymakers) receptive to the protectionist lobby. The Wellisz-Findlay model predicts that if the share of manufacturing employment grows, then pro-liberalization forces have stronger incentives to organize and pressure for liberalization.

The idea is that regime switches are caused by sudden economic shocks that are sufficiently large to trigger interest-group lobbying activities. But this occurs only when the Literature Review 21 shocks are such that the costs for the interest groups (without a policy switch) are larger than the costs of collective action. It is interesting to note that social concerns approaches, such as Corden’s conservative social welfare function, justify only temporary protection for unexpectedly affected sectors.

An implication that can be derived from these contributions is that policy regimes should be identifiable over the course of history. In this chapter I argue that the main move toward protectionism in Chile occurred right after the First World War, when severe economic conditions prompted changes in trade policies that became increasingly institutionalized during the 1920s. The identification of policy cycles in Chilean economic history is already a cottage industry. This chapter reviews four perspectives on the historical periodization of Chilean trade policy (Cortés Douglas et al.

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