Competitiveness and death : trade and politics in cars, beef, and drugs / Gary Winslett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winslett, Gary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade regulation--United States.

Trade regulation.

Automobile industry and trade--United States.

Automobile industry and trade.

Beef industry--United States.

Beef industry.

Pharmaceutical industry--United States.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Summary:

Competitiveness and Death examines the adoption and abolition of regulatory barriers to trade across three industries: automotive safety, food safety, and intellectual property rights in international drug sales. The fundamental problem in regulatory policymaking is the conflict between the deregulatory power and influence of globalization and the deregulatory power of activists. Gary Winslett builds on new trade theories to explain when and why businesses are most likely to lobby governments to reduce these regulatory trade barriers. He argues that businesses prevail when they can connect with broader concerns about national economic competitiveness. He examines how activist organizations overcome collective action problems and defend regulatory differences, arguing that they succeed when they can link their desire for barriers with preventing needless death. Competitiveness and Death provides a political companion to new trade theories in economics, questioning cleavage-based explanations of trade politics, demonstrating the underappreciated importance of activists, suggesting the limits of globalization, providing in-depth examination of previously ignored trade negotiations, qualifying the California Effect (the shift toward stricter regulatory standards), and showing the relative rarity of regulations used as disguised protectionism.

Contents:

Introduction: The Centrality of Regulation to Trade Politics

How Regulations Became the Crux of Trade Politics

Competitiveness and Death: Explaining the Negotiations over Regulatory Trade Barriers

Automobiles and Regulatory Regionalism in North America and Europe

Mad-Cow Regulations and the U.S.-Japan Beef Trade, 2003-13

Small Details, Enormous Consequences (Part 1): Regulation and the Trade in Pharmaceuticals, TRIPS to Doha

Small Details, Enormous Consequences (Part 2): Regulation and the Trade in Pharmaceuticals Post-Doha

Conclusion: Regulation and Trade Politics in the Twenty-First Century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-309) and index.

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ISBN:

9780472128341

0472128345

OCLC:

1202267830