The article reveals empirical analysis for the political economy of trade protection in developing countries and emerging economies. Accordingly, industries that are supported by assertive interest groups and are very well organized are likely to be granted a higher degree of protection from...

This paper examines empirically the causes and the origin of both the structure and the level of protection in developing countries, i.e., organized pressure groups, preferences of the electorates, and nationalistic attitudes on part of the government. However, regression analysis using...