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Business and International Environmental Agreements: Domestic Sources of Participation and Compliance by Advanced Industrialized Democracies

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  • Patrick Bernhagen

    (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, UK)

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This article analyzes the political influence of business in the context of international environmental cooperation. Locating the sources of business power in three distinct factors-organizational strength, structural privilege, and informational advantage-the article evaluates the contributions of these factors to explanations of states' ratification of, and compliance with, international environmental agreements. Using data on 35 advanced industrialized democracies, the results suggest that business influence can be best explained by reference to informational asymmetries. While countries whose economies are exposed to international trade tend to participate less in international regimes, strong domestic environmental movements can counteract incentives for non-participation by providing political decision-makers with alternative information about the costs and benefits of participation. Regime compliance also increases with the availability of independent information through environmental groups, as well as with the degree of politico-economic integration found in neocorporatist systems of interest intermediation. (c) 2008 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Patrick Bernhagen, 2008. "Business and International Environmental Agreements: Domestic Sources of Participation and Compliance by Advanced Industrialized Democracies," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 8(1), pages 78-110, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:8:y:2008:i:1:p:78-110
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    1. Andrew Cheon & Johannes Urpelainen, 2013. "How do Competing Interest Groups Influence Environmental Policy? The Case of Renewable Electricity in Industrialized Democracies, 1989–2007," Political Studies, Political Studies Association, vol. 61(4), pages 874-897, December.
    2. Jale Tosun & Kai Schulze, 2015. "Compliance with EU biofuel targets in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe: Do interest groups matter?," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 33(5), pages 950-968, October.
    3. Tobias Böhmelt, 2013. "A closer look at the information provision rationale: Civil society participation in states’ delegations at the UNFCCC," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 8(1), pages 55-80, March.
    4. Christopher Marcoux & Johannes Urpelainen, 2012. "Capacity, not constraints: A theory of North-South regulatory cooperation," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 7(4), pages 399-424, December.

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