Regional mobilization in international trade policy: The US states in transatlantic trade negotiations

IF 1.7 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Regional and Federal Studies Pub Date : 2021-04-22 DOI:10.1080/13597566.2021.1918386

J. Jaursch

引用次数: 4

Abstract

ABSTRACT Ever since the negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), noncentral governments in the US have been clamouring for a bigger say in US trade policy making. Yet, constitutional and practical constraints remain for states to represent their trade policy interests. To investigate these constraints and how states try to overcome them, this contribution considers the case of the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and the US. I analyze how states formulated and represented their interests on the TTIP. While overall state interest representation on the TTIP was low, I find various avenues in which states mobilized, mostly in a coordinated setting including the federal government and mostly driven by progressive-leaning state legislators with a background in international trade. The analysis of state interest representation on the TTIP adds to the literature on noncentral actors in international trade policy making.

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国际贸易政策中的区域动员:跨大西洋贸易谈判中的美国

自北美自由贸易协定(NAFTA)谈判以来，美国的非中央政府一直在呼吁在美国的贸易决策中获得更大的发言权。然而，各国在代表其贸易政策利益方面仍存在宪法和实际限制。为了研究这些制约因素以及各国如何努力克服这些制约因素，本文以欧盟与美国之间的《跨大西洋贸易与投资伙伴关系协定》(TTIP)谈判为例。我分析了各国如何在TTIP中制定和代表他们的利益。虽然TTIP中各州的整体利益代表很低，但我发现各州动员的各种途径，主要是在包括联邦政府在内的协调环境中，主要是由具有国际贸易背景的进步倾向的州议员推动的。对TTIP中国家利益代表的分析增加了关于国际贸易政策制定中非核心行为者的文献。

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Regional and Federal Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

21.40%

发文量

期刊介绍： The upsurge of academic and political interest in regional and federal questions since the 1980s has been stimulated by the salience of regions in EU policy-making and the Structural Funds but also by regionalization and federalization processes in many Western states. The most striking example is the devolution occurring in the UK, but the process is at work all over Europe and in other parts of the world. These developments have led to many important research programmes and projects. Regional and Federal Studies is a refereed social science journal which provides an academic forum for the publication of international research on these issues. It is essential reading for both academics and practitioners in politics, administration and the business world.