US presidents and the failure to ratify multilateral environmental agreements

Bang, Guri; Hovi, Jon; Sprinz, Detlef F.

doi:10.1080/14693062.2012.699788

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“…Finally, more disaggregated analyses might be necessary, also with regard to democracies. It is indeed plausible that particular forms of democratic government (presidential vs. parliamentary systems; see Bang et al 2012) argument in the main article is that such a data structure does not artificially inflate the number of observations and it effectively addresses concerns regarding endogeneity. However, a reasonable objection to this research design could be that the duration of the treaty-country spells might then be too long, which would induce that the actual effects of some covariates are severely temporally lagged.…”

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“…Trump quickly withdrew US support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) after assuming 1 For a general overview of the importance of leaders, see, e.g., , Chiozza and Goemans (2004), Smith (2004, 2008), Goemans et al (2009), Stanley (2009), Stanley and Sawyer (2009), Debs and Goemans (2010), , Bang et al (2012), or Wolford (2012. 2 Leaders are not the only actors in a political system affecting the process of treaty ratification.…”

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International Treaty Ratification and Leader Turnover

Böhmelt

2018

Foreign Policy Analysis

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Political leaders are ultimately responsible for their country's foreign policy, but our understanding of how executive turnover affects the likelihood of international treaty ratification remains limited. For contributing to this debate, I define leader change as the replacement of the executive leader by a new one who relies on different social groups for support. Focusing then on those cases where new leaders can assume office only from predecessors who plausibly supported treaty ratification, I expect that -in light of the predecessor's support for an agreement and the change in the domestic support base -leadership turnover makes ratification less likely. The empirical implication is tested with quantitative methods using data on multilateral treaties of the post-Cold War era. The main findings and a series of additional analyses provide strong and robust evidence for the theoretical argument. This research sheds new light on the determinants of multilateral cooperation as well as the role of government leaders in international affairs and foreign-policy decision-making.

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International Treaty Ratification and Leader Turnover

Böhmelt

2018

Foreign Policy Analysis

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“…This resolution stated that the Kyoto Protocol is an international climate treaty that did not include developing country participation and that would cause serious economic damage to the United States. (see Lee, 2001;Lisowski, 2002;Bang et al, 2012;Downie, 2014). The Byrd-Hagel resolution was approved by a vote of 95-0, indicating that no Kyoto-style agreement would achieve the necessary two-thirds majority of Senate approval.…”

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US President Joe Biden’s Administration: A New U.S. Climate Change Agenda (U.S. CCA)

Asadnabizadeh¹

2021

JPL

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The climate change issue is a key principle for Mr Joe Biden’s administration. In this paper, author conducts a Qualitative Content-Analysis (QCA) method of the elements affecting Joe Biden’s administration about the new U.S climate change agenda (U.S. CCA). Thus, the question in this research is that why climate change is one of the important issues in the Biden administration? Based on this method and data analysis the publications were identified and divided to answer the basic question of this article. I differentiated between national and international levels. Hence, paper proposes two reasons, the Economic-based approach and the Individual approach at the national level, to abovementioned research question. In addition, two specific approaches are identified at the International level: global leadership on climate change, global cooperation on the climate change. The policy implications would seem to be that national elements by Economic-based approach and the Individual approach are critical in influencing Biden's new climate agenda.

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“…26 Bang et al [2012] noted that "This target left little doubt that Kyoto would be unacceptable to the Senate." Indeed, a few months after its proposal the Senate unanimously passed a resolution against it, the Byrd-Hagel resolution.…”

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The Political Economy of Weak Treaties

Battaglini¹,

Harstad²

2016

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In recent decades, democratic countries have signed hundreds of international environmental agreements (IEAs). Most of these agreements, however, are weak: they generally do not include effective enforcement or monitoring mechanisms. This is a puzzle in standard economic models.To study this phenomenon, we propose a positive theory of IEAs in which the political incumbents negotiate them in the shadow of reelection concerns. We show that, in these environments, incumbents are prone to negotiate treaties that are simultaneously overambitious (larger than what they would be without electoral concerns) and weak (might not be implemented in full). The theory also provides a new perspective for understanding investments in green technologies, highlighting a channel through which countries are tempted to rely too much on technology instead of sanctions to make compliance credible. We present preliminary evidence consistent with these predictions.

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US presidents and the failure to ratify multilateral environmental agreements

Cited by 28 publications

References 21 publications

International Treaty Ratification and Leader Turnover

International Treaty Ratification and Leader Turnover

US President Joe Biden’s Administration: A New U.S. Climate Change Agenda (U.S. CCA)

The Political Economy of Weak Treaties

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