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Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation?

Downs, George W., Rocke, David M., Barsoom, Peter N.·1996·International Organization
DOI 10.1017/s0020818300033427
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Recent research on compliance in international regulatory regimes has argued (1) that compliance is generally quite good; (2) that this high level of compliance has been achieved with little attention to enforcement; (3) that those compliance problems that do exist are best addressed as management rather than enforcement problems; and (4) that the management rather than the enforcement approach holds the key to the evolution of future regulatory cooperation in the international system. While the descriptive findings above are largely correct, the policy inferences are dangerously contaminated by endogeneity and selection problems. A high rate of compliance is often the result of states formulating treaties that require them to do little more than they would do in the absence of a treaty. In those cases where noncompliance does occur and where the effects of selection are attenuated, both self-interest and enforcement play significant roles.

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Authors
Downs, G. W., Rocke, D. M., & Barsoom, P. N.
Venue
International Organization
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1996
Volume
50
Issue
3
Pages
379-406
ISSN
  • 0020-8183 (ISSN-L)
  • 1531-5088
DOI
10.1017/s0020818300033427
OpenAlex
W2093248821
Cited by
1,540
References
35
FWCI
47.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 4890 d)

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