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Harrison, Kathryn. "Paper Trails: Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p65907_index.html>

Harrison, K. , 2002-08-28 "Paper Trails: Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p65907_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Recent debates about globalization have revealed conflicting views about the implications of international trade for the environment. Some fear that individual jurisdictions will compete in a "race to the bottom" while others anticipate a "race to the top." Although scholars have developed formal models to explain these dynamics, there have been few detailed comparative case studies examining the influence of international forces on domestic environmental regulation in practice. This paper seeks to fill that gap through examination of the domestic and international determinants of environmental standards for the pulp and paper industry in five countries - Canada, the United States, Sweden, Australia, and Indonesia. The paper situates domestic institutions, ideas, and interest group politics within a global context. The case studies demonstrate that domestic standards have neither converged at the top nor the bottom, as the unique political and institutional context within each country has limited the impacts of intergovernmental competition. However, to the extent that international forces have influenced those standards, it is the upward pressures that, for the most part, have prevailed via two mechanisms. First, international dissemination of research on environmental impacts of pulp mills via trans-national networks of environmentalists and of information on available control technologies among trans-national bureaucratic networks both created upward pressure in each of the countries studied. While this first mechanism turns on political, rather than economic, globalization, the second represents a unique combination of the two. The trans-national network of environmental groups played a central role in generating consumer demand for "chlorine-free" paper, which in turn created market pressure for improved environmental performance around the world. Environmentalists were able to bypass the state and turn economic globalization to their advantage. However, important caveats concerning the confluence of circumstances that fostered environmentalists' success in this case are considered in the conclusion.

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