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Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816 1861 (Hardcover)
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Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816 1861 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
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The first book-length study of lobbying prior to the Civil War.
Since the 2008 global economic crisis, historians have embraced the
challenge of making visible the invisible hand of the market. This
renewed interest in the politics of political economy makes it all
the more timely to remind ourselves that debates over free trade
and protection were just as controversial in the early United
States as they have once again become, and that lobbying, then as
now, played an important part in Lincoln's government "of the
people, by the people, for the people." In Lobbyists and the Making
of US Tariff Policy, 18161861, Daniel Peart reveals how active
lobbyists were in Washington throughout the antebellum era. He
describes how they involved themselves at every stage of the making
of tariff policy, from setting the congressional agenda, through
the writing of legislation in committee, to the final vote.
Considering policymaking as a process, Peart focuses on the
importance of rules and timing, the critical roles played by
individual lawmakers and lobbyists, and the high degree of
uncertainty that characterized this formative period in American
political development. The debate about tariff policy, Peart
explains, is an unbroken thread that runs throughout the pre-Civil
War era, connecting disparate individuals and events and shaping
the development of the United States in myriad ways. Duties levied
on imports provided the federal government with the major part of
its revenue from the ratification of the Constitution to the close
of the nineteenth century. More controversially, they also offered
protection to domestic producers against foreign competition, at
the expense of increased costs for consumers and the risk of
retaliation from international trade partners. Ultimately, this
book uses the tariff issue to illustrate the critical role that
lobbying played within the antebellum policymaking process.
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