ABSTRACT: 
The book provides a general study of political cleavages created by international trade. It addresses one of the oldest debates in political economy — that between class and group-based approaches to analysis — and provides a theoretical synthesis that indicates the conditions under which one approach is more appropriate than the other. It breaks new ground by presenting the first systematic evidence (both historical and cross-national) on levels of inter-industry factor mobility, an issue of long-lasting concern for economists interested in the functioning of factor markets and the efficiency of resource allocation and for political economists interested in theories of rent-seeking. The book also presents new evidence from the history of trade politics in six western economies over the last two centuries, using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative analysis. The book was translated and published in China by Renmin University Press 2005. 

The book won the William H. Riker Prize awarded by the American Political Science Association for the best book in political economy in 2001-2002.

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Related prior and subsquent papers and publications on trade politics can be trade downloaded here. Using the links below you can download the data used in the book to calculate measures of inter-industry factor mobility, party cohesion in legislative voting on trade policy, groups testifying on related issues before committees of the U.S. Congress, and the importance of export and import-competing industries in U.S. states, as well as the the code for replicating the statistical analysis on congressional votes.

DATA DOWNLOADS:
Industry wages and profits by country (Chapter 2)
Additional data on inter-industry mobility in US manufacturing (JEH article appendix)
Committee testimony on U.S. trade legislation
Endowments and production in leading export and import-competing industries by US states
Congressional votes on U.S. trade legislation
Stata files for replication of analysis of Congressional votes (Chapter 12)