a parametric survival model and apply the proposed framework to the Kyoto Protocol ratification process. Our data sample … covers 164 countries for the period 1998 to 2009. We find evidence that, while countries’ ratification decisions are … basically strategic substitutes, they become strategic complements once we focus on the ratification decisions of specific peers …

social dialogue, including the state of ratification and progress in application of relevant ILO Conventions as they affect …

Does environmental lobbying affect the probability of environmental treaty ratification? Does the level of government … on the timing of Kyoto Protocol ratification to test this hypothesis. We find that increased environmental lobby group … activity raises the probability of ratification, and the effect rises with the degree of corruption. …

Statisticaltests................................... 67 3Ratification Quotas in International Agreements: An Example of Emission ….3 Simultaneous ratification.............................. 74 3.4 Sequential Ratification............................... 82 3 … ratification.............................. 88 3.A.1 Case1:Mixedstrategies.......................... 88 3.A.2 Case2 …

examine the consequences of ratification by referendum. We conclude that a Pareto improvement of the political integration … process would be to specify within the international treaty itself the means for its ratification; more precisely, to … incorporate a formal ratification procedure, corresponding to an ex post referendum. …

-parametric Bayesian approach, based on the partial likelihood. Our findings confirm the results of preceding studies that ratification … unobserved heterogeneity on the ratification process. …

-parametric Bayesian approach, based on the partial likelihood. Our findings confirm the results of preceding studies that ratification … unobserved heterogeneity on the ratification process. …

) bargaining framework, modified to account for a simultaneous legislative ratification vote. Though agreements favor the …

capacity is a powerful predictor of ratification of the Basel Convention, a treaty that does not ban hazardous waste trade but …