@techreport{NBERw9239,
 title = "Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An Empirical Investigation",
 author = "Pushan Dutt and Devashish Mitra",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "9239",
 year = "2002",
 month = "September",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w9239",
 abstract = {In this paper, we empirically investigate how government ideology affects trade policy.  The prediction of a partisan, ideology-based model (within a two-sector, two-factor Heckscher-Ohlin framework) is that left-wing governments will adopt more protectionist trade policies in capital rich countries, but adopt more pro-trade policies in labor rich economies than right-wing ones. The data strongly support this prediction in a very robust fashion. There is some evidence, that this relationship may hold better in democracies than in dictatorships though the magnitude of the partisan effect seems stronger in dictatorships.},
}