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The NAFTA Puzzle: Political Parties and Trade in North America explores the political background of trade liberalization culminating in the signing of the historic North American agreement more than a decade after the North America Accord idea had been outright rejected. Experts from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico examine how each political party grappled with trade as the constituent base, interest group pressures, and ideologies shifted over broad time periods. The book treats each of Canada's long-standing national parties, the Republican and Democratic parties in the U.S., and Mexico's PRI historically, concluding that North America's principal parties have flip-flopped on the trade liberalization issue. The NAFTA Puzzle details the congressional vote in the U.S. and brings us all the way up to the Zapatista uprising in Mexico, ending with a discussion of the significance of NAFTA for overall trade liberalization and the future of trade and commercial relations on the continent.
Contents
Introduction: The Trade and Political Party Flip-Flop -- Trade and Political Party Orientation in North America -- Political Parties and Free Trade in the United States -- What Forces Shape American Trade Policy? -- The Trade Policies of Canada's Grits and Tories, 1840-1988 -- The NDP and Free Trade: Facing the American Capitalist Empire -- Free Trade and Party Politics in Quebec -- Trade Policy and Economic Development in Twentieth Century Mexico -- The Free Trade Policy "Revolution" and Party Politics in Mexico -- Trade and Party: Flip-Flops and Causal Linkages -- The NAFTA Vote and Political Party: A Partial Test
