The International Law and Politics of Climate Change
Ratification of the United Nations Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6284684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jana Von Stein (0000-0001-7915-7315, Department of Political Science University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 243-268 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022002707313692 |
| OpenAlex | W2141387892 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 101 |
| References cited | 39 |
A considerable challenge for the creators of international environmental agreements is how to design mechanisms that deter defection without deterring participation. Relatively ``soft'' law often garners widespread participation, but it creates few concrete incentives for states to improve behavior. ``Harder'' commitments make shirking more difficult, but these institutional features may deter from joining the very states whose practices are least consistent with the treaty's requirements. Empirical analyses of ratification of the core agreements of the climate change regime support these propositions. Flexibility provisions provide one mechanism for states to mitigate this dilemma. The findings with regard to one flexibility mechanism strongly support this argument. The results with regard to a second flexibility mechanism, however, tend to follow an opposite pattern. The author offers a preliminary interpretation of this finding. Finally, this article provides insight into how international social networks and the strength of domestic nongovernmental organizations affect ratification
Argument (complex analysis · Business · Dilemma · Economics · Flexibility (engineering · Incentive · International law · Interpretation (philosophy · Law and economics · Mechanism (biology · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Ratification · Treaty · Climate Change Policy and Economics · International Development and Aid · Law · World Trade Organization Law
The Kyoto Agreement and the pursuit of relative gains
Committed to Rights
China's Strategic Multilateralism
The Diffusion of International Environmental Agreements
Do political systems have a lasting effect on climate change concern? Evidence from Germany after reunification
Reconciling the flexibility mechanisms of climate policies towards the inclusiveness of developing countries
Democracy and climate change policies
Side Effects of Creating a Major Regional Development Bank
The influence of institutions, governance, and public opinion on the environment
Does the Conceptualization and Measurement of Democracy Quality Matter in Comparative Climate Policy Research
Foreign Aid and Climate Change Policy
Institutional Design and Elite Support for Climate Policies
Solving the Moro problem
The dilemma of informal governance with outside option as solution
The limits of reputation on compliance
International institutions
Ratification of multilateral environmental agreements
Explaining Nonratification of the Genocide Convention
Regulating Conflict
International Treaty Ratification and Leader Turnover
The Institutional Design of Arms Control Agreements
The political feasibility of potent enforcement in a post-Kyoto climate agreement
State power and diffusion processes in the ratification of global environmental treaties, 1981–2008
The self-selection of democracies into treaty design
Effects of funding mechanisms on participation in multilateral environmental agreements
The effectiveness of soft law in international environmental regimes
Water resources data and information exchange in transboundary water treaties
Environmental-agreement design and political ideology in democracies
A contingency theory of policy innovation
The political economy of international environmental agreements
China, the United States, bargaining, and climate change
Environmental agreement under the non-interference principle
The impact of environmental interest groups in international negotiations
The effects of treaty legality and domestic institutional hurdles on environmental treaty ratification
Diplomatic water cooperation
Federalism's Fractured Decision Making in the Kyoto Protocol
The Political Economy of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Adoption
Is There a Democracy–Civil Society Paradox in Global Environmental Governance
Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change
Right-Wing Populists and the Politics of Renegotiating International Environmental Agreements
Assessing the Impact of Democratic Institutions and Administrative Capacity on National Carbon Emissions Reduction
Measuring countries’ cooperation within the international climate change regime
National climate policies in international comparison
Potential for biofuel development in Tihvin and Boksitogorsk districts of the Leningrad region — The analysis of energy wood supply systems and costs
Understanding Climate Change Negotiations
Limits to cooperation
The effect of vulnerability on climate change mitigation policies
Climate policy innovation in the South – Domestic and international determinants of renewable energy policies in developing and emerging countries
The political economy of passing climate change legislation
Environmental Interest Groups and Authoritarian Regime Diversity
Delayed ratification in environmental regimes
The future looks empty’
Reluctant ratifiers
Learning and the Precision of International Investment Agreements
Shallow commitments may bite deep
Exploring the nature of inter-country interactions in the process of ratifying international environmental agreements
Do Binding Beat Nonbinding Agreements? Regulating International Water Quality
Term Limits and Environmental Treaty Commitments
Using Trade Provisions to Make Environmental Agreements More Dynamic
Designing the Optimal International Climate Agreement with Variability in Commitments
Political Science Research on International Law
National Institutions and Global Public Goods
International regime formation revisited
Is there an environmental version of the Kantian peace? Insights from water pollution in Europe
Cooperation by Treaty
Contestation and Resilience in the Liberal International Order
External dimensions of E uropean environmental policy
The Politics of Energy
Strategies of Contestation
Compensating for the Climate
Signaling by Signature
Power or Plenty
What’s in a Claim? De Jure versus De Facto Borders in Interstate Territorial Disputes
Intergovernmental Organizations and the Kantian Peace
IO Mediation of Interstate Conflicts
Democratization and the Varieties of International Organizations
Why Do States Join Some Universal Treaties but Not Others? An Analysis of Treaty Commitment Preferences
Martial Law? Military Experience, International Law, and Support for Torture
Does Institutional Proliferation Undermine Cooperation? Theory and Evidence from Climate Change
Trade and Volatility at the Core and Periphery of the Global Economy
Distributional Conflict Between Powerful States and International Treaty Ratification1
Legal Traditions and Nonbinding Commitments
Do Arms Control Treaties Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
Thinking Ahead
International Law and Public Attitudes Toward Torture
Can International Nongovernmental Organizations Boost Government Services? The Case of Health
Delayed Ratification
The marginal impact of Engos in different types of democratic systems
Do indicators influence treaty ratification? The relationship between mid‐range performance and policy change
Civil society participation in global governance
International Environmental Regimes
Network analysis approach to China’s cooperative multilateral strategy in Asia between 1995 and 2020
Climate Change Politics
A Comparison of International and Domestic Sources of Global Governance Dynamics
Profitable Participation
Reserved Ratification
Interests, Norms and Support for the Provision of Global Public Goods
Rational design in motion
Do parties matter for international environmental cooperation? An analysis of environmental treaty participation by advanced industrialised democracies
Drivers of ratification rates in global biodiversity governance
Consensus Treaties
International Organization
Global Environmental Politics
Death Penalty Abolition and the Ratification of the Second Optional Protocol
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
The Clean Development Mechanism
Investments in Global Warming Mitigation
The Incidence and Timing of PAC Contributions to Incumbent U.S. House Members, 1993-94
Explaining Commitment
Power or Plenty
Why Do Countries Commit to Human Rights Treaties
Intergovernmental Organizations and the Kantian Peace
IO Mediation of Interstate Conflicts
Democratization and the Varieties of International Organizations
Power Positions
Democracy and Environmental Degradation
States, NGOs, and International Environmental Institutions
Introduction
The Optimal Design of International Trade Institutions
The Concept of Legalization
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
On compliance
Trading Human Rights
Hard and Soft Law in International Governance
The Rational Design of International Institutions
Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation
Loosening the Ties that Bind
Is There a Broader-Deeper Trade-off in International Multilateral Agreements
Politics and International Legal Obligation
The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources
Do Democracies Exhibit Stronger International Environmental Commitment? A Cross-country Analysis
International Linkages and Environmental Sustainability
Do Treaties Constrain or Screen? Selection Bias and Treaty Compliance
Contracting around International Uncertainty
International Law and State Behavior
The Intergovernmental Network of World Trade
| Unique citing works | 101 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,61 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 100 |