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| Volume 3, No. 1,
April 2004
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The Determinants of US
Congressional Voting on the Trade and Development Act of 2000 |
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Baban Hasnat |
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Department of Business Administration and Economics,
State University of New York College at Brockport,
U.S.A. |
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Charles Callahan, III |
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Department
of Business Administration and Economics,
State University of New York College at Brockport, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract |
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paper provides an empirical examination of the determinants of
support for the Trade and Development Act of 2000 (TDA2000) in the
United States Congress. We estimate a logistic regression model and
control for both economic and political influences. We find that
business political action committee contributions to lawmakers, the
percentage of the African-American population in their constituency,
the percentage of the Hispanic population in their constituency, and
the skill level of the constituents had a significant positive
influence on lawmakers voting in favor of TDA2000. Democratic party
affiliation, import-competing industries in the constituency, and
labor union membership had a significant negative influence on the
TDA2000 vote. |
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Key words:
trade and development act of 2000; trade bill; trade policy; |
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congressional voting |
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classification:
D72; F13 |
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