The service economy: U.S. trade coalitions in an era of deindustrializationThe Review of International Organizations - Tập 14 - Trang 261-296 - 2019
Leonardo Baccini, Iain Osgood, Stephen Weymouth
Services dominate the US economy and are increasingly traded across borders yet little is known about service firms’ trade policy objectives or lobbying activities. We fill this gap by examining services’ political engagement on trade policy as manifested through lobbying, public positions on trade, and reports issued by U.S. Industry Trade Advisory Committees. We document for the first time that ...... hiện toàn bộ
Imperfect adaptation: how the WTO and the IMF adjust to shifting power distributions among their membersThe Review of International Organizations - Tập 11 - Trang 171-196 - 2016
Bernhard Zangl, Frederick Heußner, Andreas Kruck, Xenia Lanzendörfer
How do international institutions adjust to shifting power distributions among their members? We argue that institutional adaptations to the rise of emerging and the decline of established powers are different from what power transition theories (PTTs) would lead us to believe. Institutional adaptations are not impossible, as pessimist PTT variants hold; and they are rarely easy to attain, let alo...... hiện toàn bộ
Developing countries and international organizations: Introduction to the special issueThe Review of International Organizations - Tập 11 - Trang 155-169 - 2016
John W. McArthur, Eric Werker
We describe four megatrends since the end of the Cold War that relate to developing countries: a greater share of the global economy; more accessible technologies, particularly in communication; breakthroughs in global cooperation in tackling basic human needs; and the evolution of a complex set of problems in spite of the progress. We then examine potential political economy channels that might h...... hiện toàn bộ
Opening hours of polling stations and voter turnout: Evidence from a natural experimentThe Review of International Organizations - Tập 15 - Trang 133-163 - 2018
Niklas Potrafke, Felix Roesel
Voter turnout has declined in many countries, raising the question of whether electoral institutions increase voter turnout. We exploit an electoral reform in the Austrian state of Burgenland as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of polling station opening hours on voter turnout. The results show that a 10% increase in opening hours increased voter turnout by some 0.5 to 0.9 percen...... hiện toàn bộ
Congressional voting on funding the international financial institutionsThe Review of International Organizations - Tập 3 - Trang 351-374 - 2008
J. Lawrence Broz
The United States is the largest contributor to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, providing resources in exchange for voting power in these international financial institutions (IFIs). While the Treasury Department manages the day-to-day aspects of US participation in these institutions, Congress retains authority on funding. With the aim of understanding the microincentive...... hiện toàn bộ
International regulation without international government: Improving IO performance through orchestrationThe Review of International Organizations - - 2010
Kenneth W. Abbott, Duncan Snidal
International organizations (IOs) have been widely criticized as ineffective. Yet scholars and practitioners assessing IO performance frequently focus on traditional modes of governance such as treaties and inter-state dispute-resolution mechanisms. When they observe poor performance, moreover, they often prescribe a strengthening of those same activities. We call this reliance on traditional stat...... hiện toàn bộ