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03801aam a2200541 i 4500 001 32B2CA66F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 150326s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015003325 020 $a 1107037034 020 $a 9781107037038 035 $a (OCoLC)905759075 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d ERASA $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d CDX $d EYM $d YUS $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-th--- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/a-th 050 00 $a JQ1669.P53 $b N36 2015 082 00 $a 328.52/0746 $2 23 084 $a POL023000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Naoi, Megumi, $d 1973- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015019026 245 10 $a Building legislative coalitions for free trade in Asia : $b globalization as legislation / $c Megumi Naoi, University of California, San Diego. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Cambridge University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xvi, 213 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "What accounts for the large reduction in trade barriers among new democracies in Asia after World War II? Using new data from Japan and Thailand, this book provides a surprising answer: politicians, especially party leaders, liberalized trade by buying off legislative support with side-payments such as pork barrel projects. Trade liberalization was a legislative triumph, not an executive achievement. This finding challenges the conventional "insulation" argument, which posits that insulating executives from special interest groups and voters is the key to successful trade liberalization. By contrast, this book demonstrates that party leaders built open economy coalitions with legislators by feeding legislators' rent-seeking desires with side-payments rather than depriving their appetites. This book unravels the political foundations of open economy"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $a Part I. Building Open Economy Coalitions: 1. Optimal use of pork, policy, and institutional reforms -- Part II. Empirical Evidence: 2. Use of pork as side-payment; 3. Pro-loser policy during hard times; 4. Helping co-partisan legistrators survive elections: use of institutional reforms; 5. Japanese legislators in rival regions; 6. Thai legislators' position-taking on foreign retail investment -- Part III. Discussion: 7. The political Foundations of an Open Economy: discussion. 650 0 $a Political planning $z Japan. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109656 650 0 $a Political planning $z Thailand. 650 0 $a Political leadership $z Japan. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106495 650 0 $a Political leadership $z Thailand. 650 0 $a Free trade $x Political aspects $z Japan. 650 0 $a Free trade $x Political aspects $z Thailand. 650 0 $a Finance, Public $z Japan. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103751 650 0 $a Finance, Public $z Thailand. 651 0 $a Japan $x Appropriations and expenditures. 651 0 $a Thailand $x Appropriations and expenditures. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Expenditures, Public. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00918345 650 7 $a Finance, Public. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00924477 650 7 $a Free trade $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00933958 650 7 $a Political leadership. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069363 650 7 $a Political planning. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069460 651 7 $a Japan. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204082 651 7 $a Thailand. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205310 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/37038/cover/9781107037038.jpg 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213020533.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=32B2CA66F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search