Boilerplate in International Trade Agreements

被引：29

作者：

Peacock, Claire ^{[1
,2
]}

Milewicz, Karolina ^{[3
,4
]}

Snidal, Duncan ^{[3
,5
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Laval, Ecole Super Etud Int, Quebec City, PQ, Canada

[2] Simon Fraser Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Burnaby, BC, Canada

[3] Univ Oxford, Dept Polit & Int Relat, Int Relat, Oxford, England

[4] Univ Oxford, Univ Coll, Oxford, England

[5] Univ Oxford, Nuffield Coll, Oxford, England

来源：

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY | 2019年 / 63卷 / 04期

基金：

瑞士国家科学基金会;

关键词：

REGIONAL-INTEGRATION; POLICY DIFFUSION; TEXT; EU; INSTITUTIONS; LEGALIZATION; CONTRACTS; MODELS; LAW;

D O I：

10.1093/isq/sqz069

中图分类号：

D81 [国际关系];

学科分类号：

030207 ;

摘要：

New international agreements often recycle language from previous agreements, using boilerplate solutions alongside customized provisions. The presence of boilerplate in international agreements has important implications for understanding how international rules are made. The determinants behind boilerplate in international agreements have not previously been systematically evaluated. Using original data from a sample of 348 preferential trade agreements (PTAs) adopted between 1989 and 2009, we combine novel text analysis measures with Latent Order Logistic (LOLOG) graph network techniques to assess the determinants behind boilerplate in labor and environmental provisions commonly found in PTAs. Our results indicate that whereas boilerplate can be used for both efficiency and distributive purposes, international boilerplate is used primarily for efficiency gains and power-distribution considerations are not systematically important.

引用

页码：923 / 937

页数：15