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Anotine, Elise , Atikcan, Ece Ozlem and Chalmers, Adam William (2023) Politicisation, business lobbying, and the design of preferential trade agreements. Journal of European Public Policy . doi:10.1080/13501763.2023.2218413 ISSN 1350-1763. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2218413
Abstract
Our paper addresses the question of how governments respond to the politicisation of preferential trade agreements (PTA). How have governments responded to business interest mobilisation while negotiating PTAs? Moreover, if there has been an increase in the salience of a trade agreement, has this changed the government response? First, we assess politicisation in terms of the mobilisation patterns of private sector interests during PTA negotiations. Our central argument is that governments liberalise more when a broad range of business interests involving a large number of sectors mobilise in response to trade negotiations, as this would provide legitimacy to their policy positions. Second, we study governments’ reactions to the level of salience of the trade agreement at hand. We argue that governments liberalise less when the agreement in question is highly salient and provokes increased public debate. We take an actor-centred and comparative approach to our research questions and use a novel dataset of 157 PTAs covering the period from 2005 to 2018. Both of our hypotheses are supported by our analysis. Our results also reveal an important difference between PTA ‘depth’ and ‘rigidity’, which are often perceived as closely correlated in assessing trade openness.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Commercial treaties -- Political aspects, Tariff preferences -- Political aspects, Foreign trade regulation, Lobbying, Business and politics | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of European Public Policy | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1350-1763 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 8 June 2023 | ||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1080/13501763.2023.2218413 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of European Public Policy on 08/06/2023, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13501763.2023.2218413 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Description: | Part of the following special issue: Reacting to the Politicization of Trade Policy. Guest Editors: Dirk De Bièvre, Andreas Dür and Scott Hamilton |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 June 2023 | ||||||
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