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An instructor at Columbia University since 1993, Sharyn O’Halloran currently serves as a George Blumenthal professor of political economics and a professor of international and public affairs. In addition to her accomplishments as a university educator, Sharyn O’Halloran has written dozens of articles and multiple books, including Politics, Process, and American Trade Policy.
Published by the University of Michigan Press in 1994 as part of its Michigan Studies in International Political Economy series, Politics, Process, and American Trade Policy examines the formation and continuation of American trade policy through the lens of organizational economics and neo-institutionalism in order to highlight the weaknesses of conventional historical economic models, such as the pressure-group model and the presidential-ascendancy model. Offering new insights into both early and contemporary American trade policy, this book rejects scholarship that presents trade policy as disparate and ad hoc, instead offering a uniquely unified framework for thinking about the ways in which public and private institutions create and develop trade policy.