campaigns, elections, and the law
PROTECTIONISM FORMS PART of an American political legacy inherited from the colonial era as part of Great Britain's mercantilist traditions. Independence did not change the need to protect America's infant industries. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior; Protectionism]
protectionism
global economic issues
Anti-Corn Law League
trade (economics)
concepts
economic governance
political economy