TY  - JOUR
AU  - Irwin,Douglas A.
AU  - Kroszner,Randall S.
TI  - Log-Rolling and Economic Interests in the Passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5510
PY  - 1996
Y2  - March 1996
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5510
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5510.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Douglas A. Irwin
Department of Economics
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755
Tel: 603/646-2942
Fax: 603/646-2122
E-Mail: douglas.irwin@dartmouth.edu

Randall S. Kroszner
University of Chicago
Booth School of Business
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-8779
E-Mail: randy.kroszner@chicagobooth.edu
AB  - We analyze Senate roll-call votes concerning tariffs on specific goods in order to understand the economic and political factors influencing the passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. Contrary to recent studies emphasizing the partisan nature of the Congressional votes, our reading of the debates in the Congressional Record suggests that the final, party-line voting masks a rich vote- trading dynamic.  We estimate a logit model of specific tariff votes that permits us to identify (a) important influences of specific producer beneficiaries in each Senator's constituency and (b) log- rolling coalitions among Senators with otherwise unrelated constituency interests which succeeded in raising tariff rates.
ER  -