Proclaiming trade policy: 'Delegated Unilateral Powers' and the limits on Presidential Unilateral Enactment of Trade Policy

• Main Authors: ROTTINGHAUS, Brandon, LIM, Elvin T.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Presidency; Unilateral presidency; Presidential power; Trade policy; Presidential proclamations; American Politics; International Relations; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2810; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4067/viewcontent/APR__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article examines presidential proclamations on trade policy, a category of presidential unilateral power that we call delegated unilateral power that is used frequently in creating or modifying trade policy, between the period1974 and 2006 and tests the boundaries of the explanations predicted...