Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral). Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The Centrality of Regulation to Trade Politics -- How Regulations Became the Crux of Trade Politics -- Competitiveness and Death: Explaining the Negotiations over Regulatory Trade Barriers -- Automobiles and Regulatory Regionalism in North America and Europe -- Mad-Cow Regulations and the U.S.-Japan Beef Trade, 2003-13 -- Small Details, Enormous Consequences (Part 1): Regulation and the Trade in Pharmaceuticals, TRIPS to Doha -- Small Details, Enormous Consequences (Part 2): Regulation and the Trade in Pharmaceuticals Post-Doha -- Conclusion: Regulation and Trade Politics in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"Competitiveness and Death examines the adoption and abolition of regulatory barriers to trade across three industries: automotive safety, food safety, and intellectual property rights in international drug sales. The fundamental problem in regulatory policymaking is the conflict between the deregulatory power and influence of globalization and the deregulatory power of activists. Gary Winslett builds on new trade theories to explain when and why businesses are most likely to lobby governments to reduce these regulatory trade barriers. He argues that businesses prevail when they can connect with broader concerns about national economic competitiveness. He examines how activist organizations overcome collective action problems and defend regulatory differences, arguing that they succeed when they can link their desire for barriers with preventing needless death. Competitiveness and Death provides a political companion to new trade theories in economics, questioning cleavage-based explanations of trade politics, demonstrating the underappreciated importance of activists, suggesting the limits of globalization, providing in-depth examination of previously ignored trade negotiations, qualifying the California Effect (the shift toward stricter regulatory standards), and showing the relative rarity of regulations used as disguised protectionism"-- Provided by publisher.
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