James Ε. Alt

The Political Economy of International Trade

A similar set of concepts has been central to the literatures on the formation of trade policy coalitions and the “new economics of institutions”: the political and economic con...

Asset Specificity and the Political Behavior of Firms: Lobbying for Subsidies in Norway

Previous research into endogenous trade policy has described extensively the political incentives of firms with specific assets, but no studies have shown directly that firms be...

PARALLEL AND OVERLAPPING GAMES: THEORY AND AN APPLICATION TO THE EUROPEAN GAS TRADE*

Crude Politics: Oil and the Political Economy of Unemployment in Britain and Norway, 1970–85

This article extends existing political-economic models to deal more rigorously with politics in countries with trade-dependent economies, and in particular with the policy cons...