Dynamics of Regulatory Change : How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies / Vogel/Kagan; ed. by David Vogel, Robert A. Kagan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vogel/Kagan, Author.

Contributor:

Kagan, Robert A., Editor.

Vogel, David, Editor.

Series:

Global, Area, and International Archive

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Critics of globalization claim that economic liberalization leads to a lowering of regulatory standards. As capital and corporations move more freely across national boundaries, a race to the bottom results as governments are forced to weaken labor and environmental standards to retain current contracts or attract new business. The essays in this volume argue that, on the contrary, under certain circumstances global economic integration can actually lead to the strengthening of consumer and environmental standards. This volume extends the argument of David Vogel's book Trading Up, which discussed environmental standards, by focusing on the impact of globalization on labor rights, women's rights and capital market regulations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: National Regulations in a Global Economy

1. The International Politics of Harmonization: The Case of Capital Market Regulation

2. The Business Dynamics of Global Regulatory Competition

3. Dealing with a Resource Crisis: Regulatory Regimes for Managing the World's Marine Fisheries

4. Globalization and Hazardous Waste Management: From Brown to Green?

5. Closing the Deception Gap: Accession to the European Union and Environmental Standards in East Central Europe

6. Environmental Management Standards and Globalization

7. WTO Efforts to Manage Differences in National Sanitary and Phytosanitary Policies

8. Globalization, Federalism, and Regulation

9. Feminism, NGO's, and the Impact of the New Transnationalisms

10. A Race to the Bottom, a Race to the Top or the March to a Minimum Floor?

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

ISBN:

0-520-93210-2

OCLC:

1419789171