International Governance and Public Policy

Abstract

The Open Section of the panel International Governance and Public Policy will include five presentations. Pedro Mendoza, from the University of Lisbon, will present the paper “Biased Learning: Factor Abundance and Inequality in Trade Liberalization”. Using dyadic trade data from 82 countries and from 1950 to 2000, his analysis shows that inequality mitigates the effects of trade liberalization as a result of learning in labor abundant countries, and accentuates the same effects in a capital abundant country. In “Domestic Origins of International Commitment: Comparing Theories of Partisan Politics”, Kai Schulze, from the University of Postdam, will analyze whose partisan preferences are reflected in ratification decisions of international treaties. His research is based on the ratification behavior of 21 OECD countries relating environmental protection and labor markets. Jenny Surbeck, from the University of Bern, will present the paper “Protecting Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs): What Role for Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs)?”. The paper asks what explains both depth and scope of IPR provisions, explores who are the main advocates of IPR protection and how successful their approaches to embed IPR protection in PTAs are. The presentation of the paper “The Governance Structure of the African Peer Review Mechanism: The Consequences of a Division of Labor”, written by John-Paul Safunu Banchani, from the University of Bamberg, will focus on the governance and operation of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), investigating the role of delegation to sub-bodies within the institutional design of the APRM. Finally, María Luisa Azpíroz, from the Panamerican University, will present the paper “United Nations Climate Change Conferences: European Union, Brazil and Mexico's Messages from Durban to Lima”. She analyzes the media diplomacy messages of the EU, Brazil and Mexico in the last four United Nations Climate Change Conferences (2011-2014), in order to see whether there was a coordination or at least convergence of positions, as proposed by the EU-Brazil and EU-Mexico Strategic Partnership.

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Biased Learning: Factor abundance and inequality in trade liberalization	View Paper Details
United Nations Climate Change Conferences: European Union, Brazil and Mexico's Messages from Durban to Lima	View Paper Details
Protecting Intellectual Property Rights: What Role for Preferential Trade Agreements?	View Paper Details
Domestic origins of international commitment: Comparing theories of partisan politics	View Paper Details
The governance structure of the African Peer Review Mechanism: the consequences of a division of labour	View Paper Details