 | Research Download a description of my current and future research plans (.pdf) Private standards have long been ubiquitous to commerce and trade. To ensure consistency and interoperability of products, medieval guilds (Mattli, 2001; Vogel, 2010), and more recently firms, industry associations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), have established standards that prescribe technical requirements. As firms’ supply chains and consumer markets expanded beyond national borders during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to reduce the transaction costs of conducting business internationally, these stakeholders cooperated to amalgamate national standards into private transnational standards. However, beginning in the mid-1980s, new types of transnational private standards (TPS) began to emerge. Whereas TPS had previously established technical requirements designed to address coordination problems (i.e., ensure conformity of products within and across industries) and information problems (i.e., signal quality of products to consumers) (Büthe & Mattli, 2011), this new generation of TPS established criteria designed to solve collaboration problems (i.e., credibly commit to self-regulation) and mitigate negative social externalities (e.g., emissions from production, poor labor practices, environmental degradation) (Haufler, 2001; Potoski & Prakash, 2009). My research seeks to understand what motivates actors to pursue these arrangements, their effects on policymaking, and whether they hinder or contribute to effective governance Manuscripts Under Review (Links to Summaries)Project 1: Lobbying and Transnational Private Standards in Other Issue-Areas Project 2: The Effectiveness of Transnational Private Regulation Project 3: Explaining the Diffusion of Transnational Private Regulation Other Publications (Links to Publications)
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