| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Trading Blows: Party Competition and U.S. Trade Policy in a Globalizing Era. By James Shoch. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xii, 388 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2646-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4975-8.)

Over the last twenty years, increased partisanship in Congress has impacted trade policy, according to James Shoch, a University of Minnesota political scientist. His conclusion challenges the common wisdom that during most of the post–World War II period party conflict had little significance for trade. Other scholars, such as I. M. Destler and Judith Goldstein, have argued that congressional disagreements over trade usually reflected diverse constituent interests (such as conflicts between import- and export-competing industries) and ideology (varying enthusiasm for free trade) or which party controlled the White House. . . .

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