About the Author
David Vogel is the George Quist Chair of Business Ethics at the Haas School of Business and a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent publications include Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy and Benefits of Barriers? Regulation in Transatlantic Trade. Robert A. Kagan is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent books are Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law, Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism, and Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment.
Table of Contents
Introduction: National Regulations in a Global Economy, David Vogel and Robert A. Kagan
1. The International Politics of Harmonization: The Case of Capital Market Regulation, Beth Simmons
2. The Business Dynamics of Global Regulatory Competition, Dale D. Murphy
3. Dealing with a Resource Crisis: Regulatory Regimes for Managing the World’s Marine Fisheries, Christopher J. Carr and Harry N. Scheiber
4. Globalization and Hazardous Waste Management: From Brown to Green?, Kate O’Neill
5. Closing the Deception Gap: Accession to the European Union and Environmental Standards in East Central Europe, Diahanna Post
6. Environmental Management Standards and Globalization, Magali A. Delmas
7. WTO Efforts to Manage Differences in National Sanitary and Phytosanitary Policies, David G. Victor
8. Globalization, Federalism, and Regulation, R. Daniel Kelemen
9. Feminism, NGO’s, and the Impact of the New Transnationalisms, Joyce Gelb
10. A Race to the Bottom, a Race to the Top or the March to a Minimum Floor?, Daniel P. Gitterman