POLI 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reciprocal Tariff Act, Hellenic Parliament, Comparative Advantage

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 358
• Professor: Leonardo Baccini

Document Summary

Poli 358 lecture 6: domestic politics and international cooperation: interest groups. Legend: normal text- from slides; italics: what the professor said in class, over and above the slides. Putnam"s model- diplomacy and domestic policy interactions decision maker strives to reconcile domestic and international imperatives simultaneously. Smoot-hawley tariff to reciprocal trade agreements act. About compliance: managerial vs game theory school, reputation, audience costs. Offering a conceptual framework for understanding how diplomacy and domestic politics interact . Recognizing that central decision makers strive to reconcile domestic and international imperatives simultaneously . Emphasizing that each national political leader appears at both game boards . A two-stage model: level 1: the negotiators bargain and reach a tentative agreement (international, level 2: the agreement is ratified through a process that includes separate discussions with each group of domestic constituents (domestic) Win-sets: the set of all possible level 1 agreements that would gain the support of the constituent at level 2.