As the world seems poised to recalibrate significantly the respective roles of markets and authority, The Politics of Global Regulation offers timely analytical and experiential guidance about what works, what doesn't, and why. Combining keen general observations with informative cases drawn from international finance, human rights, corporate social responsibility, maritime safety, and international trade, this excellent volume should be required reading for anyone interested in the subject--and these days, that excludes few among us. -- John Gerard Ruggie, Harvard University This is an important book. The financial crisis that began in 2007/2008 is the worst since the 1930s and the failure of global regulation is all too apparent. Already ten years ago when the East Asian financial crisis erupted it was clear that better rules and institutions were required at the global level. Powerful vested interests on Wall Street and in the financial sector prevented reform--a classic case of regulatory capture. This book explains systematically the conditions that make global regulatory capture possible and demonstrates through a wide range of case studies how it might be averted. -- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist As the world contemplates a new Bretton Woods system that will surely not look anything like the top-down U.S.-Britain system created after World War II, this excellent collection sheds important light on the demand for and supply of global regulation. The analytic framework Mattli and Woods lay out should give hope that the next epoch of global economic regulation will escape capture by self-interested financial institutions and further the common interest in stable and equitable economic growth and development. -- Geoffrey Garrett, University of Sydney The editors have put together an outstanding set of contributors to tackle a critical and often under-explored feature of the global political economy--international regulation. This book is a needed theoretical contribution. I believe it will have wide appeal to those interested in international relations, international business, and global public policy more generally. -- Abraham L. Newman, Georgetown University Mattli and Wood's volume is a timely collective examination of an important topic. Global regulation has received insufficient academic attention, because it is complex and doesn't sit easily with the traditional intellectual categories of international political economy. The essays collected in this book break ground in mapping out the new politics of regulation and helping us to understand how it is changing domestic and international economies. -- Henry Farrell, George Washington University
List of Figures and Tables vii Introduction ix CHAPTER ONE: In Whose Benefit? Explaining Regulatory Change in Global Politics by Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods 1 CHAPTER TWO: The Governance Triangle: Regulatory Standards Institutions and the Shadow of the State by Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal 44 CHAPTER THREE: Filling a Hole in Global Financial Governance? The Politics of Regulating Sovereign Debt Restructuring by Eric Helleiner 89 CHAPTER FOUR: From State Responsibility to Individual Criminal Accountability: A New Regulatory Model for Core Human Rights Violations by Kathryn Sikkink 121 CHAPTER FIVE: The Private Regulation of Global Corporate Conduct by David Vogel 151 CHAPTER SIX: Racing to the Top ... at Last: The Regulation of Safety in Shipping by Samuel Barrows 189 CHAPTER SEVEN: Regulatory Shift: The Rise of Judicial Liberalization at the WTO by Judith L. Goldstein and Richard H. Steinberg 211 CHAPTER EIGHT: Economic Integration and Global Governance: Why So Little Supranationalism? By Miles Kahler and David A. Lake 242 List of Contributors 277 Index 279
Walter Mattli is professor of international political economy and a fellow of St. John's College, University of Oxford. Ngaire Woods is professor of international political economy and director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford.
Special Recognition for the 2010 Levine Prize, Research Committee on the Structure of Governance, International Political Science Association "The Politics of Global Regulation makes a significant contribution to this field of research, focusing on global regulatory changes in different policy areas... The book provides a well-structured and coherent set of contributions that focus on the difficulties faced by supranational regimes in avoiding regulatory capture at the global level."--Jacint Jordana, Governance "This impressive new volume demonstrates some of the best new thinking on global regulation and the ways in which the context and process of policy making affect the rules, standards and institutions that increasingly govern people's lives. Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods provide the analytical centrepiece of the volume, which seeks to explain which interests are likely to be represented in global regulation... Thanks to this impressive volume, future work in this area will no doubt have a richer analytical grounding than before."--Kevin Young, Global Policy "The recent global financial crisis and recession have forced the issue of financial regulation to the top of the international political agenda. The current economic difficulties may provide the world with a one-in-a generation opportunity to formulate a set of constructive rules for the century's economy. The book deals with the general issue of how regulatory regimes are created and evolve... What a joy to find an edited volume in which the constituent chapters actually fit together in a coherent whole... All of the chapters refer back to the basic constructs presented in the opening theoretical piece--a rarity in this kind of work. The book is thus highly recommended to both experts in the field and neophytes."--Joel Campbell, International Affairs "[This book] ... is likely to make a significant impact on the field of international political economy."--Tim Dunne, Times Higher Education
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