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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Mitchell, Ronald B. |
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Conference:
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Heterogeneity and Collective Action |
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Location:
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Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
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Conf. Date:
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October 14-17 |
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Date:
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1993 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8229
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Sector:
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General & Multiple Resources
Global Commons |
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Subject(s):
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global commons
pollution
regulation
international relations
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Abstract:
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"The almost forty year history of international regulation of intentional oil pollution is the history of the shift from a lead activist nation (the U.K.) with a mildly-strong commitment to environmental protection, medium-strong power (by itself) to influence other actors, and little empirical knowledge of the relative adequacy of various regime alternatives to a new lead activist nation (the U.S.) with radically stronger preferences for environmental protection, dramatically stronger power resources available for influencing others, and more than a decade and a half of experience with one set of (failed) policies. The latter nation wanted and was able to create a much stronger institution, which, while having no more specific rules, had significantly wider scope and significantly stronger decision-making rules and greater rights and duties available to those committed to change rather than the status quo."
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