Walter Mattli
Biographic Data
| ID | 4378480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Mattli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattli |
| SIGNATURE | MATTLI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 799 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Darkness by Design
An exposé of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today’s capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, while centralized exchanges that once ensured fairness and transparency have fragmented into a dizzying array of competing exchanges and trading platform…
Private Transnational Governance
This chapter discusses the key drivers and risks of private transnational governance. It shows that private governance rarely seems to stay purely private. When it fails to consider wider societal interests and concerns, private governance will draw unwanted attention from governments, potentially leading to oversight and regulation or public-private partnerships — what is referred to as ‘joint or hybrid’ governance. A trend towards hybrid govern…
Dynamics of Institutional Choice
When do actors Use available institutions, Select among alternative forums, Change existing rules, or Create new arrangements? In this chapter the authors present their theory of boundedly rational institutional choice (uscc) which connects a wide range of institutional theories in arguing that institutional choice is driven by the interaction of cooperation problems and the institutional status quo. USCC theory accounts for the dynamics of insti…
International Organizations as Orchestrators
International Organizations as Orchestrators reveals how IOs leverage their limited authority and resources to increase their effectiveness, power, and autonomy from states. By 'orchestrating' intermediaries – including NGOs – IOs can shape and steer global governance without engaging in hard, direct regulation. This volume is organized around a theoretical model that emphasizes voluntary collaboration and support. An outstanding group of scholar…
Institutional Choice and Global Commerce
Why do institutions emerge, operate, evolve and persist? Institutional Choice and Global Commerce elaborates a theory of boundedly rational institutional choice that explains when states USE available institutions, SELECT among alternative forums, CHANGE existing rules, or CREATE new arrangements (USCC). The authors reveal the striking staying power of the institutional status quo and test their innovative theory against evidence on institutional…
Regulation & Governance announces annual “Best Article” prize winners
Regional Integration and the Evolution of the European Polity
Integration theory is as relevant today as it was when JCMS was founded. One set of reasons is empirical: virtually every region of the globe is experimenting with new arrangements or reforming existing regimes. Economic globalization is, in large measure, channelled through and registered on regions (Kim and Shin, 2002). Regional integration also raises an important theoretical challenge: how do we explain variation in the design of regional reg…
The New Global Rulers
Over the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations. This internationalization and privatization of rule-making has been motivated not only by the economic benefits of common rules for global markets, but also by the realization that government regulators often lack the expertise and resources to deal with increasingly complex and urgent regulatory tasks. This book exa…
The Politics of Global Regulation
Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be made to serve broader interests? This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or "regulatory capture" happens, and how it can be averted. Walte…
Ernst Haas's evolving thinking on comparative regional integration
Haas's work on Europe has been immensely influential, so much so that the study of European integration has long been synonymous with Haas and his intellectual legacy. His name, however, does not figure prominently in recent contributions to the rapidly growing field of comparative regional integration. In part, this is an oversight and thus unfortunate since several of his insights travel well and are quite relevant to present-day debates. Howev…
Accountability in Accounting? The Politics of Private Rule-Making in the Public Interest
Over recent decades governments have increasingly delegated domestic and international regulatory functions to private-sector agents. This article examines the reasons for such delegation and how private agents differ from public ones, and then analyzes the politics of regulation post delegation. It argues that the key difference between delegation to a public agent and delegation to a private one is that in the latter case a multiple-principals …
Chapter 8 Public and Private Governance in Setting International Standards
A Certain Idea of Europe
A Certain Idea of Europe. By Craig Parsons. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 256p. $39.95. This book offers perhaps the most carefully researched analytical study to date of French policymaking in European integration covering most of the post–World War II period. It seeks to show how certain ideas about Europe have shaped the French pursuit of European institutions and, by extension, European outcomes themselves. Ideas, Craig Parsons …
The Internal Value of External Options
Most of the literature has treated EU enlargement and the transition of Central and Eastern Europe, two of the most memorable events in recent history, as separate events. We argue that such separation is not warranted; it obfuscates an important fact, namely that the reform process in many Central and East European countries has taken a sui generis turn precisely because of the external EU option. We offer a formal model that explains how and wh…
Setting International Standards
Standards have become one of the most important nontariff barriers to trade, especially national product standards that specify design or performance characteristics of manufactured goods. Divergent national standards often inhibit trade, whereas regional and international standards increasingly serve as instruments of trade liberalization. Consequently, the setting of international standards—seemingly technical and apolitical—is rapidly becoming…
The demand-side politics of EU enlargement
Most theoretical arguments about enlargement have sought to elucidate why the EU may have an interest in accepting CEECs. While these 'supply-side' arguments are essential building blocks of a comprehensive account of enlargement, they need to be complemented by a theory that seeks to understand the politics and economics of enlargement from a demand-side perspective. We show in a formal model how a transition country's demand for EU membership r…
The politics and economics of international institutional standards setting
Private Justice in a Global Economy
Drawing on the analytical framework developed by Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal in the Rational Design project, I seek to shed light on the striking institutional differences among the various methods of international commercial dispute resolution for private parties. These methods include recourse to public courts and more frequently to private international courts, such as the International Court of Arbitration of the Inte…
Sovereignty Bargains in Regional Integration
Sovereignty Bargains in Regional Integration Get access Walter Mattli Walter Mattli Department of Political Science, Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 149–180, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.00208 Published: 17 December 2002
The Logic of Regional Integration
In the late 1980s regional integration emerged as one of the most important developments in world politics. It is not a new phenomenon, however, and this 1999 book presents an analysis of integration across time, and across regions. Walter Mattli examines projects in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, but also in Latin America, North America and Asia since the 1950s. Using the tools of political economy, he considers why some integration s…
Explaining regional integration outcomes
Perhaps the most striking fact that emerges from a close study of various integration schemes, past and present, is their wide range of outcomes. At one extreme, the highly successful European Union has managed over the past forty years to establish an array of institutions and policies, as well as a broad and clearly defined set of rules. At the other extreme, projects such as the Latin American Free Trade Association, the Andean Pact, and the E…
Revisiting the European Court of Justice
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is widely recognized not only as an important actor in the process of European integration but also as a strategic actor in its own right. In the last four years the literature on the Court has dramatically expanded, nourishing a lively debate between neofunctionalists and intergovernmentalists. But this debate has now reached the limits of its usefulness. Both neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism neglect …
Law and politics in the European Union
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Theory of Moves
“We discussed what the Soviet reaction would be to any possible move by the United States, what our reaction with them would have to be to that Soviet reaction, and so on, trying to follow each of those roads to their ultimate conclusion.” Theodore C. Sorensen about the deliberations of the Executive Committee during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis (Holsti, Brody, and North, 1964: 188). “What are you going to do after that? Look ahead, look…
Europe Before the Court
The European Court of Justice has been the dark horse of European integration, quietly transforming the Treaty of Rome into a European Community (EC) constitution and steadily increasing the impact and scope of EC law. While legal scholars have tended to take the Court's power for granted, political scientists have overlooked it entirely. This article develops a first-stage theory of community law and politics that marries the insights of legal s…
Europe Before the Court
The European Court of Justice has been the dark horse of European integration, quietly transforming the Treaty of Rome into a European Community (EC) constitution and steadily increasing the impact and scope of EC law. While legal scholars have tended to take the Court's power for granted, political scientists have overlooked it entirely. This article develops a first-stage theory of community law and politics that marries the insights of legal s…
Setting International Standards
Standards have become one of the most important nontariff barriers to trade, especially national product standards that specify design or performance characteristics of manufactured goods. Divergent national standards often inhibit trade, whereas regional and international standards increasingly serve as instruments of trade liberalization. Consequently, the setting of international standards—seemingly technical and apolitical—is rapidly becoming…
Revisiting the European Court of Justice
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is widely recognized not only as an important actor in the process of European integration but also as a strategic actor in its own right. In the last four years the literature on the Court has dramatically expanded, nourishing a lively debate between neofunctionalists and intergovernmentalists. But this debate has now reached the limits of its usefulness. Both neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism neglect …
Accountability in Accounting? The Politics of Private Rule-Making in the Public Interest
Over recent decades governments have increasingly delegated domestic and international regulatory functions to private-sector agents. This article examines the reasons for such delegation and how private agents differ from public ones, and then analyzes the politics of regulation post delegation. It argues that the key difference between delegation to a public agent and delegation to a private one is that in the latter case a multiple-principals …
Law and politics in the European Union
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The demand-side politics of EU enlargement
Most theoretical arguments about enlargement have sought to elucidate why the EU may have an interest in accepting CEECs. While these 'supply-side' arguments are essential building blocks of a comprehensive account of enlargement, they need to be complemented by a theory that seeks to understand the politics and economics of enlargement from a demand-side perspective. We show in a formal model how a transition country's demand for EU membership r…
Private Justice in a Global Economy
Drawing on the analytical framework developed by Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal in the Rational Design project, I seek to shed light on the striking institutional differences among the various methods of international commercial dispute resolution for private parties. These methods include recourse to public courts and more frequently to private international courts, such as the International Court of Arbitration of the Inte…
Explaining regional integration outcomes
Perhaps the most striking fact that emerges from a close study of various integration schemes, past and present, is their wide range of outcomes. At one extreme, the highly successful European Union has managed over the past forty years to establish an array of institutions and policies, as well as a broad and clearly defined set of rules. At the other extreme, projects such as the Latin American Free Trade Association, the Andean Pact, and the E…
The Internal Value of External Options
Most of the literature has treated EU enlargement and the transition of Central and Eastern Europe, two of the most memorable events in recent history, as separate events. We argue that such separation is not warranted; it obfuscates an important fact, namely that the reform process in many Central and East European countries has taken a sui generis turn precisely because of the external EU option. We offer a formal model that explains how and wh…
The politics and economics of international institutional standards setting
Regional Integration and the Evolution of the European Polity
Integration theory is as relevant today as it was when JCMS was founded. One set of reasons is empirical: virtually every region of the globe is experimenting with new arrangements or reforming existing regimes. Economic globalization is, in large measure, channelled through and registered on regions (Kim and Shin, 2002). Regional integration also raises an important theoretical challenge: how do we explain variation in the design of regional reg…
Ernst Haas's evolving thinking on comparative regional integration
Haas's work on Europe has been immensely influential, so much so that the study of European integration has long been synonymous with Haas and his intellectual legacy. His name, however, does not figure prominently in recent contributions to the rapidly growing field of comparative regional integration. In part, this is an oversight and thus unfortunate since several of his insights travel well and are quite relevant to present-day debates. Howev…
Sovereignty Bargains in Regional Integration
Sovereignty Bargains in Regional Integration Get access Walter Mattli Walter Mattli Department of Political Science, Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 149–180, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.00208 Published: 17 December 2002
Theory of Moves
“We discussed what the Soviet reaction would be to any possible move by the United States, what our reaction with them would have to be to that Soviet reaction, and so on, trying to follow each of those roads to their ultimate conclusion.” Theodore C. Sorensen about the deliberations of the Executive Committee during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis (Holsti, Brody, and North, 1964: 188). “What are you going to do after that? Look ahead, look…
Regulation & Governance announces annual “Best Article” prize winners
Theory of Moves
“We discussed what the Soviet reaction would be to any possible move by the United States, what our reaction with them would have to be to that Soviet reaction, and so on, trying to follow each of those roads to their ultimate conclusion.” Theodore C. Sorensen about the deliberations of the Executive Committee during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis (Holsti, Brody, and North, 1964: 188). “What are you going to do after that? Look ahead, look…
Europe Before the Court
The European Court of Justice has been the dark horse of European integration, quietly transforming the Treaty of Rome into a European Community (EC) constitution and steadily increasing the impact and scope of EC law. While legal scholars have tended to take the Court's power for granted, political scientists have overlooked it entirely. This article develops a first-stage theory of community law and politics that marries the insights of legal s…
Law and politics in the European Union
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Revisiting the European Court of Justice
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is widely recognized not only as an important actor in the process of European integration but also as a strategic actor in its own right. In the last four years the literature on the Court has dramatically expanded, nourishing a lively debate between neofunctionalists and intergovernmentalists. But this debate has now reached the limits of its usefulness. Both neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism neglect …
The Logic of Regional Integration
In the late 1980s regional integration emerged as one of the most important developments in world politics. It is not a new phenomenon, however, and this 1999 book presents an analysis of integration across time, and across regions. Walter Mattli examines projects in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe, but also in Latin America, North America and Asia since the 1950s. Using the tools of political economy, he considers why some integration s…
Explaining regional integration outcomes
Perhaps the most striking fact that emerges from a close study of various integration schemes, past and present, is their wide range of outcomes. At one extreme, the highly successful European Union has managed over the past forty years to establish an array of institutions and policies, as well as a broad and clearly defined set of rules. At the other extreme, projects such as the Latin American Free Trade Association, the Andean Pact, and the E…
Sovereignty Bargains in Regional Integration
Sovereignty Bargains in Regional Integration Get access Walter Mattli Walter Mattli Department of Political Science, Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 149–180, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.00208 Published: 17 December 2002
The politics and economics of international institutional standards setting
Private Justice in a Global Economy
Drawing on the analytical framework developed by Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal in the Rational Design project, I seek to shed light on the striking institutional differences among the various methods of international commercial dispute resolution for private parties. These methods include recourse to public courts and more frequently to private international courts, such as the International Court of Arbitration of the Inte…
The demand-side politics of EU enlargement
Most theoretical arguments about enlargement have sought to elucidate why the EU may have an interest in accepting CEECs. While these 'supply-side' arguments are essential building blocks of a comprehensive account of enlargement, they need to be complemented by a theory that seeks to understand the politics and economics of enlargement from a demand-side perspective. We show in a formal model how a transition country's demand for EU membership r…
Setting International Standards
Standards have become one of the most important nontariff barriers to trade, especially national product standards that specify design or performance characteristics of manufactured goods. Divergent national standards often inhibit trade, whereas regional and international standards increasingly serve as instruments of trade liberalization. Consequently, the setting of international standards—seemingly technical and apolitical—is rapidly becoming…
Chapter 8 Public and Private Governance in Setting International Standards
A Certain Idea of Europe
A Certain Idea of Europe. By Craig Parsons. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 256p. $39.95. This book offers perhaps the most carefully researched analytical study to date of French policymaking in European integration covering most of the post–World War II period. It seeks to show how certain ideas about Europe have shaped the French pursuit of European institutions and, by extension, European outcomes themselves. Ideas, Craig Parsons …
The Internal Value of External Options
Most of the literature has treated EU enlargement and the transition of Central and Eastern Europe, two of the most memorable events in recent history, as separate events. We argue that such separation is not warranted; it obfuscates an important fact, namely that the reform process in many Central and East European countries has taken a sui generis turn precisely because of the external EU option. We offer a formal model that explains how and wh…
Ernst Haas's evolving thinking on comparative regional integration
Haas's work on Europe has been immensely influential, so much so that the study of European integration has long been synonymous with Haas and his intellectual legacy. His name, however, does not figure prominently in recent contributions to the rapidly growing field of comparative regional integration. In part, this is an oversight and thus unfortunate since several of his insights travel well and are quite relevant to present-day debates. Howev…
Accountability in Accounting? The Politics of Private Rule-Making in the Public Interest
Over recent decades governments have increasingly delegated domestic and international regulatory functions to private-sector agents. This article examines the reasons for such delegation and how private agents differ from public ones, and then analyzes the politics of regulation post delegation. It argues that the key difference between delegation to a public agent and delegation to a private one is that in the latter case a multiple-principals …
The Politics of Global Regulation
Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be made to serve broader interests? This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or "regulatory capture" happens, and how it can be averted. Walte…
The New Global Rulers
Over the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to international private-sector organizations. This internationalization and privatization of rule-making has been motivated not only by the economic benefits of common rules for global markets, but also by the realization that government regulators often lack the expertise and resources to deal with increasingly complex and urgent regulatory tasks. This book exa…
Regional Integration and the Evolution of the European Polity
Integration theory is as relevant today as it was when JCMS was founded. One set of reasons is empirical: virtually every region of the globe is experimenting with new arrangements or reforming existing regimes. Economic globalization is, in large measure, channelled through and registered on regions (Kim and Shin, 2002). Regional integration also raises an important theoretical challenge: how do we explain variation in the design of regional reg…
Institutional Choice and Global Commerce
Why do institutions emerge, operate, evolve and persist? Institutional Choice and Global Commerce elaborates a theory of boundedly rational institutional choice that explains when states USE available institutions, SELECT among alternative forums, CHANGE existing rules, or CREATE new arrangements (USCC). The authors reveal the striking staying power of the institutional status quo and test their innovative theory against evidence on institutional…
Regulation & Governance announces annual “Best Article” prize winners
International Organizations as Orchestrators
International Organizations as Orchestrators reveals how IOs leverage their limited authority and resources to increase their effectiveness, power, and autonomy from states. By 'orchestrating' intermediaries – including NGOs – IOs can shape and steer global governance without engaging in hard, direct regulation. This volume is organized around a theoretical model that emphasizes voluntary collaboration and support. An outstanding group of scholar…
Private Transnational Governance
This chapter discusses the key drivers and risks of private transnational governance. It shows that private governance rarely seems to stay purely private. When it fails to consider wider societal interests and concerns, private governance will draw unwanted attention from governments, potentially leading to oversight and regulation or public-private partnerships — what is referred to as ‘joint or hybrid’ governance. A trend towards hybrid govern…
Dynamics of Institutional Choice
When do actors Use available institutions, Select among alternative forums, Change existing rules, or Create new arrangements? In this chapter the authors present their theory of boundedly rational institutional choice (uscc) which connects a wide range of institutional theories in arguing that institutional choice is driven by the interaction of cooperation problems and the institutional status quo. USCC theory accounts for the dynamics of insti…
Darkness by Design
An exposé of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today’s capital marketsCapital markets have undergone a dramatic transformation in the past two decades. Algorithmic high-speed supercomputing has replaced traditional floor trading and human market makers, while centralized exchanges that once ensured fairness and transparency have fragmented into a dizzying array of competing exchanges and trading platform…
Political science (22 works) · Economics (19 works) · Law (19 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Business (9 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · European union (8 works)