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
Optimal transfers and participation decisions in international environmental agreementsThe Review of International Organizations - Tập 1 - Trang 379-396 - 2006
Carlo Carraro, Johan Eyckmans, Michael Finus
The literature on international environmental agreements has recognized the role transfers play in encouraging participation in international environmental agreements. However, the results achieved so far are overly specific. Therefore, we develop a more general framework that enables us to study the role of transfers in a systematic way. We propose transfers using both internal and external finan...... hiện toàn bộ
Balancing design objectives: Analyzing new data on voting rules in intergovernmental organizationsThe Review of International Organizations - Tập 10 - Trang 377-402 - 2014
Daniel J. Blake, Autumn Lockwood Payton
This article presents a new data set on one of the most visible features of institutional design - voting rules. The data set covers 266 intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that vary in size and substantive scope and includes data on IGO issue area and founding membership characteristics that complement the measures on voting rules. The article outlines the characteristics and categorization of...... hiện toàn bộ
Commerce and institutions: Trade, scope, and the design of regional economic organizationsThe Review of International Organizations - Tập 8 - Trang 389-414 - 2013
Yoram Z. Haftel
The design of current regional economic organizations (REOs) is remarkably diverse. Some REOs address numerous economic issues, while others have only limited mandates. Some REOs have an independent bureaucracy and a legalized dispute settlement mechanism (DSM), while others do not. What determines this institutional variation? Thinking about these institutions as devices that generate credible co...... hiện toàn bộ