Diverging orbits : situation definitions in creation of regimes for broadcast and remate sensing satellites
By: PETERSON, M. J
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ArticlePublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, May 2004American Political Science review 98, 2, p. 277-292Abstract: The divergent results of two roughly simultaneous negotiations about international regimes for TV broadcasting and remote sensing from satellites revel that governments do not form preferences by referring only to the interests emphasized in rational choice accounts or to identities emphasized in sociological institutionalist ones. Tracing the course of the negotiations reveals that governments´ perceptions of the interests and indentities at stake, and their formulation of their preferences are shaped by understanding of the contours of the problem or issue at hand. These understandings, or situation definitions, structure political interactions by indicating the casual and moral beliefs relevant to the question hand, the range of efficacious and acceptable policy means available for addressing it, and the sorts of authority, expertise, skills, and ohter resources that give particular actors strong claims to inclusion in the process of deciding how to address it.
The divergent results of two roughly simultaneous negotiations about international regimes for TV broadcasting and remote sensing from satellites revel that governments do not form preferences by referring only to the interests emphasized in rational choice accounts or to identities emphasized in sociological institutionalist ones. Tracing the course of the negotiations reveals that governments´ perceptions of the interests and indentities at stake, and their formulation of their preferences are shaped by understanding of the contours of the problem or issue at hand. These understandings, or situation definitions, structure political interactions by indicating the casual and moral beliefs relevant to the question hand, the range of efficacious and acceptable policy means available for addressing it, and the sorts of authority, expertise, skills, and ohter resources that give particular actors strong claims to inclusion in the process of deciding how to address it.
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