POLS 2331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Abram Chayes, Barsoom, Material Conditional
23 Feb 2018
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On compliance by abram chayes and antonia handler chayes. Background assumption supported by the following: e ciency - transaction costs, procedures, how things are set up, interests - in states" interests; reforms can be made with changing interests, norms - complying is normative; expectation to obey treaties. Noncompliance is deviant, not expected, behavior: informal enforcement measures should be utilized mostly, jawboning - persuading a miscreant to change its ways. The o ending state can either conform or ignore its obligation. Is the good news about compliance good new about cooperation? . Realist/skeptical critique of chayes" managerial argument: compliance =/= cooperation. Pols 2331: it"s contaminated by selection problems and endogeneity. Treaties are endogenous to states" interests and expectations about future compliance. States select into treaties with which they are likely to comply. Ex: harold koh speech about reciprocity between the us and mexico: managerial approach.
