WTO Judicial Politics and EU Trade Policy: Business Associations as Vessels of Special Interest?

摘要: This article focuses on the effects of WTO’s quasi-judicial system dispute resolution politics trade policy making in European Union (EU). We argue that this institutional innovation had a systematic transformative effect EU politics, creating pressures for adaptation and changing character organized lobbying. On one hand, new environment WTO created to implement significant innovations ease access private parties generate an influx information strengthen offensive market actions. other reform directly affected firms’ incentives mobilize politically, specialized The empirical analysis shows how these two processes ultimately led re-organization lobbying compelled business associations become increasingly receptive demands special interests.