@article{83906,
  author = {Raymond Hicks and Helen V. Milner and Dustin Tingley},
  title = {Trade Policy, Economic Interests, and Party Politics in a Developing Country: The Political Economy of CAFTA-DR},
  abstract = { <p>Developing countries have increasingly opened their economies to trade. Research about trade policy in developed countries focuses on a bottom-up process by identifying economic preferences of domestic groups. We know less about developing countries. We analyze how economic and political variables influenced Costa Rican voters in a referendum on CAFTA-DR, an international trade agreement. We find little support for Stolper{\textendash}Samuelson models of economic preferences, but more support for specific factor models. We also isolate the effects of political parties on the referendum, controlling for many economic factors; we document how at least one party influenced voters and this made the difference for CAFTA-DR passage. Politics, namely parties using their organizational strength to cue and frame messages for voters, influenced this important trade policy decision. Theories about trade policy need to take into account top-down political factors along with economic interests.</p> },
  year = {2014},
  journal = {International Studies Quarterly},
  volume = {58},
  pages = {106{\textendash}117},
  issn = {1468-2478},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isqu.12057},
  doi = {10.1111/isqu.12057},
  language = {eng},
}