International institutions and issue linkage : building support for agricultural trade liberalization
By: DAVIS, Christina L
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ArticlePublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, February 2004American Political Science Review 98, 1, p. 153-170Abstract: This article explains how the institutional context of international negotiations influences their outcomes. I argue that issue linkage couteracts domestic obstacles to liberalization by broadening the negotiation stakes. Institutions bolser the credibility of the linkage to make it more effective. I test the argument in the agricultural sector, wich has been among the most difficult sector of government to liberalize. Statistical analysis of U.S. negotiations with Japan and the EU from 1970 to 1999 indicates that an institutionalized linkage between agricultural and industrial issues encourages agricultural liberalization in both Japan and Europe. Through case studies of key negotiations, I first examine why countries choose to link issues, then show how the linkage changes interest group mobilization and shifts the policy process to promote liberalization.
This article explains how the institutional context of international negotiations influences their outcomes. I argue that issue linkage couteracts domestic obstacles to liberalization by broadening the negotiation stakes. Institutions bolser the credibility of the linkage to make it more effective. I test the argument in the agricultural sector, wich has been among the most difficult sector of government to liberalize. Statistical analysis of U.S. negotiations with Japan and the EU from 1970 to 1999 indicates that an institutionalized linkage between agricultural and industrial issues encourages agricultural liberalization in both Japan and Europe. Through case studies of key negotiations, I first examine why countries choose to link issues, then show how the linkage changes interest group mobilization and shifts the policy process to promote liberalization.
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