The business of buying American: Public procurement as trade strategy in the USA

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 701-724

  Weiss, Linda ^a   Thurbon, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Buy America Act; Government procurement; Government business cooperation; State activism; Trade strategy; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249156166     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290600950597     Document Type: Article

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