Much of the literature on the design of trade policy institutions takes the political pressure that governments face as exogenous. This paper integrates exogenous and endogenous political pressure into a single model, showing that the presence of endogenous political pressure overturns important results and provides insight into observed features of trade agreements as well as rules of organiza...

would like to thank Karen Remmer for her guidance in the grant proposal process which made the field work possible and Ken Roberts and Ken Coleman for reading many drafts. I would also like to thank the members of the Frente Democrático Campesino. This work would not have been possible without all of their generous help. 2 Introduction The research on social movements and popular organizing 1 i...

among others internal, regional, international, political, economic, technical, social and cultural factors are reasons that theorists introduce for beginning of integration at a region. by looking at the functions of the shanghai cooperation organization and the association of southeast asian nations (asean), we understand that there are two basic pragmatic factors, the support of the great po...

Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...