 | Research Download a description of my current and future research plans (.pdf) Most product packaging contains certification labels or references to standards such those beginning with 'ISO'. Transnational private standards such as these have been ubiquitous to commerce and trade since the medieval period. They prescribe technical requirements that firms, industry associations, and non-governmental organizations use to solve coordination problems, for instance, ensuring conformity through supply chains, and information problems, such as signalling quality of products to consumers. Since the 1980s these private actors have experimented with designing standards to address two additional types of problems. First, collaboration problems, for example, to ensure that all firms within an industry adopt similar voluntary environmental regulations. Second, to mitigate negative social externalities such as emissions from production, poor labor practices, or environmental degradation. My research seeks to understand what motivates actors to pursue these arrangements, their effects on policymaking, and the extent they contribute to effective governance. Work In Progress (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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