We draw on the policy diffusion literature to shed more light on the determinants of treaty ratification, a crucial … step in the formation of international regimes. Our hypotheses stipulate that a country's ratification behaviour is … influenced by the ratification choices of other countries in general, or of specific types of other countries. The underlying …

Identifies obstacles to the ratification and implementation of selected ILO Conventions. …

negotiations and later to the ratification of the San Francisco Peace Treaty and the United States-Japan Security Pact. The points …

not ratified universally: for the conventions adopted between 1975 and 1995, the cumulated probability of ratification is … about 13 per cent ten years after their adoption. In this paper, the ratification decision is understood as a transition … industrialised countries, the ratification of ILO conventions is shown to depend on internal political factors such as the …

not ratified universally: for the conventions adopted between 1975 and 1995, the cumulated probability of ratification is … about 13 per cent ten years after their adoption. In this paper, the ratification decision is understood as a transition … industrialised countries, the ratification of ILO conventions is shown to depend on internal political factors such as the …