미국 하원 FTA 표결과 대통령 외교정책: 미국-모로코, 미국-바레인, 미국-오만 FTA 사례를 중심으로

FTA Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives and Presidential Foreign Policy: In Cases of the U.S.-Morocco FTA, U.S.-Bahrain FTA, and U.S.-Oman FTA

This study seeks to reveal why the U.S. House Democrats showed different levels of support in the voting of the U.S.-Morocco FTA, U.S.-Bahrain FTA, and U.S.-Oman FTA. Existing studies focusing on the constituency or members' ideology do not properly account for the variance of these three FTA voting results. All of these FTAs, however, were promoted as a part of the president's foreign policies. If so, FTA support in Congress could depend on representatives' evaluation of the presidential foreign policy. Based on this, the study analyzes how representatives' evaluation of President Bush's foreign policy changed according to the period of the three FTA votes. The vote on the FTAs has been influenced by their evaluation of the presidential foreign and national security policies.