Political Compliance and U.S. Trade Dominance

Bibliographic Data

ID7246367
AuthorsNeil R Richardson (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author)
Year1976
Volume70
Issue4
Pages1098-1109
Publication date1976-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Political Science Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1959376
OpenAlexW2335312359
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited19

This study examines influence relations between the United States and countries that are dependent upon their foreign trade with it. The hypotheses are concerned with political compliance expected of these dependencies as a consequence of their economic vulnerabilities to pressure from the U.S. Informed by trade-related variables and U.N. General Assembly voting behavior of the mid-1960s, the hypotheses find some support. The evidence shows that its dependencies, especially those in the western hemisphere, agree with the U.S. in General Assembly roll calls to a greater degree than do other countries. This compliant behavior, however, is confined to votes that pit the United States against the Soviet Union; when the superpowers are in partial or complete agreement, U.S. dependencies are no more in accord with the U.S. than are other countries. Throughout the study, dependencies are proposed to be vulnerable along four dimensions of their economic circumstances. Interestingly, the respective effects of these four factors are not as hypothesized. Their relative weights in contributing to compliance are largely as expected, but the nature of their partial associations is not. Finally, it happens that most of the dependencies turn out to be Latin American and Caribbean countries, a fact that complicates the interpretation of the statistical results

Compliance (psychology · Development economics · Dominance (genetics · Economics · International economics · International trade · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Soviet union · Voting · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · World Systems and Global Transformations

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