Lessons in Lobbying for Free Trade in 19th-Century Britain
To Concentrate or Not
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3247459 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (0000-0002-7820-6231, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-58 |
| Publication date | 1991-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1962877 |
| OpenAlex | W2114639189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 31 |
I present a modified version of the public choice interest group model that integrates concentrated and deconcentrated interests with successful lobbying. It is argued that effective free trade lobbying required the political fusion of the economic interests representing two fundamental changes in nineteenth-century Britain's economy: (1) geographic concentration of the core export industry (cotton textiles) and (2) deconcentration of the broader export sector both geographically and in terms of industrial structure. Empirical evidence from both national and individual levels firmly supports the contention that the timing and political success of Britain's nineteenth-century free trade lobby required the combined forces of core export interests and the more diverse and geographically more evenly distributed interests of the export sector as a whole
Core (optical fiber · Economics · Economy · Empirical evidence · Free trade · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Engineering · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Interest groups
Elite Opinion on Canada-U.S. Trade Liberalization
Political economy of trade protection
International Relations as a Social Science
Industrial Fragmentation over Trade
Leadership, Hegemony, and the International Economy
Democratic Convergence and Free Trade
Industrial Location and Protection
Party Competition and the Inter-Industry Structure of US Trade Protection
Reactions and Reciprocity
Trade, Democracy, and the Size of the Public Sector
The political economy of U.S. import policy
Economic Models of Political Choice
Popular Movements c. 1830–1850
The Industrial Revolution 1760-1830
British historical statistics
The Logic of Collective Action
The industrial revolution and British overseas trade
Pressure Groups and the Pattern of Tariffs
The Determinants of Tariff and Nontariff Trade Restrictions in the United States
The political economy of tariff policy
Tariff policy and comparative advantage in the iron and steel industry
The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century
Steam Power and British Industrialization to 1860
Invention and Innovation in the British Pin Industry, 1790–1850
T. S. Ashton Prize Essay for 1976 Labour, Power, and the Size of Firms in Lancashire Cotton in the Second Quarter of the Nineteenth Century
Industrial Finance, 1830-1914. The Finance and Organization of English Manufacturing Industry
Concentration and Integration in the Sheffield Crucible Steel Industry
Marshall and the Birth and Death of Firms
State Power and the Structure of International Trade
Specific Factors, Capital Markets, Portfolio Diversification, and Free Trade
The limits of hegemonic stability theory
The hegemon's dilemma
The Size of Firms in the Cotton Industry
Triumph of Factory System in England
Concentration and Specialization in the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1825-1850
The Political Economy of Federalism
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2017 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |