International Trade and Political Institutions

The late Fiona McGillivray, formerly of the Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University, US, Iain McLean, Professor of Politics, Oxford University and Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK, Robert Pahre, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Senior Lecturer in Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

• Contents: Preface 1. Tariffs and Modern Political Institutions: An Introduction 2. Agreeable Duties: The Tariff Treaty Regime in the Nineteenth Century 3. Trading Free and Opening Markets 4. Irish Potatoes, Indian Corn and British Politics: Interests, Ideology, Heresthetic and the Repeal of the Corn Laws 5. The Strategic Use of Ideas: Nationalizing the Interest in the Nineteenth Century 6. A Unifying Theory of Interests, Institutions and Ideas? Concluding Remarks References Index

'This stimulating and well-written volume is based on the papers originally presented at a mini-conference held at Washington University in St. Louis . . . I do not exaggerate in saying that this should be standard reading for international relations theorists as well as economists and economic historians interested in the political economy of trade reform.'