Aaronson, Susan Ariel; Abouharb, M. Rodwan - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2010
The WTO system has democratic rights spillovers. In this paper, we show how GATT and WTO rules induce memberstates to … advance several democratic rights: specifically political participation, due process and access toinformation. We use … other scholars to testour findings about how the WTO and democratic rights became unexpected bedfellows. …