Ideas in two-level games: The EC-United States dispute over agriculture in the GATT Uruguay round

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dc.contributor.authorDaugbjerg, Carsten
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T23:03:36Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.updated2015-12-12T07:50:20Z
dc.description.abstractIn 1992, the United States and the European Community (EC) reached an agreement on the Uruguay Round Agreement of Agriculture (URAA). A comparison of the EC's and the United States's initial agricultural proposals with the final agreement shows that the specific commitments agreed to reduce agricultural support and protection went a long way to accommodate EC agricultural interests. However, the United States had a decisive say on the paradigm underpinning the agreement. This outcome raises questions on the role of ideas in trade negotiations characterized by two-level games. The article shows that there was an overt ideational conflict between the United States and the EC and that the URAA was a trade-off between U.S. concessions on specific commitments to reduce agricultural protection and support and EC concessions on the ideational underpinning of the agreement. Thus, the EC was unable to convert its relatively smaller win set into full-scale bargaining power to influence both layers of the agreement.
dc.identifier.issn0010-4140
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/85014
dc.publisherSage Publications Inc
dc.sourceComparative Political Studies
dc.subjectKeywords: Agriculture; GATT; Ideas; Institutions; Trade policy; Two-level games
dc.titleIdeas in two-level games: The EC-United States dispute over agriculture in the GATT Uruguay round
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue9
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage1289
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1266
local.contributor.affiliationDaugbjerg, Carsten, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu4901500@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidDaugbjerg, Carsten, u4901500
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160600 - POLITICAL SCIENCE
local.identifier.ariespublicationf5625xPUB13215
local.identifier.citationvolume41
local.identifier.doi10.1177/0010414007302341
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-49049103357
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByf5625
local.type.statusPublished Version

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