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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
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State University of New York College
at Brockport
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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
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U.S.A.
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Abstract
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The 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
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trade and development act
of 2000; trade bill; trade policy;
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congressional voting
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JEL classification
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D72; F13
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