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Replication, Realism, and Robustness: Analyzing Political Regimes and International Trade

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2004

EDWARD D. MANSFIELD ,
HELEN V. MILNER  and
B. PETER ROSENDORFF
EDWARD D. MANSFIELD
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania
HELEN V. MILNER
Affiliation:
Columbia University
B. PETER ROSENDORFF
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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Abstract

Our earlier article established that pairs of democracies trade more freely than country-pairs composed of a democracy and an autocracy (Mansfield, Milner, and Rosendorff 2000). Xinyuan Dai (2002) incorrectly asserts that our conclusion depends on the preferences of the decision makers who formulate trade policy. We show that Dai fails to accurately replicate our model, and hence erroneously claims that the new equilibria she deduces are consistent with it. In addition, we demonstrate that in altering one of our assumptions, Dai offers a model that is less realistic as well as inconsistent with the substantive literature on international bargaining. Finally, we question the robustness of her approach. Due to these problems of replication, realism, and robustness, we conclude that Dai's model is of limited utility.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 96 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 167 - 169
Copyright
© 2002 by the American Political Science Association

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