{"id":57440,"date":"2016-06-28T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T06:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2016-06-28T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T06:18:35","slug":"2016-06-28-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/events\/2016-06-28-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GraSPP Research Seminar &#8220;More than Just a Rich Country Club: Membership Conditionality and Institutional Reform in the OECD&#8221;<br>Prof. Christina Davis, Princeton University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h3><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"967\" height=\"537\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5066 size-full\" alt=\"\u30b9\u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30f3\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30c8 2016-06-28 15.08.50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/eef2fae3a8b5b31279f03a626f1d3920.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/eef2fae3a8b5b31279f03a626f1d3920.png 967w, https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/eef2fae3a8b5b31279f03a626f1d3920-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/eef2fae3a8b5b31279f03a626f1d3920-768x426.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 967px) 100vw, 967px\" \/><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>More than Just a Rich Country Club: Membership<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Conditionality <\/b><b>and Institutional Reform in the OECD<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0\u00a0 Christina Davis, Professor, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Politics, Princeton University<\/p>\n<p>Date:\u00a0 \u00a0 Friday, 8th of July, 10:30-12:00<\/p>\n<p>Venue:\u00a0 Room 610, Administration Building #2<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This seminar is open to all UTokyo students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Century;\" color=\"#000000\" face=\"Century\">Abstract:<br \/>\nConditional membership may be one of the most important sources of leverage for IOs. What<br \/>\nunderlies the terms of selection and the willingness of applicants to pay the price of entry? The<br \/>\ninfluence of accession conditions has been studied in the context of EU and NATO, where sizable<br \/>\nbenefits motivate major concessions by applicants. This paper examines a much less powerful organization,<br \/>\nthe OECD. The organization provides both public goods in the form of policy information<br \/>\nand club goods in the form of status. Through a process of self-selection by applicants and screening<br \/>\nby members, the organization has managed gradual expansion while preserving its value as an elite<br \/>\nclub of like-minded states. Informality of accession criteria has allowed flexibility to raise and lower<br \/>\nthe bar for entry. Statistical analysis highlights broad conditions related to income, democracy, and<br \/>\ngeopolitics that correlate with earlier entry into the OECD relative to other countries while there are<br \/>\nless clear patterns for the role of trade and financial openness. Case studies of Japan, Mexico, Korea,<br \/>\nand the Czech Republic are used to examine how prospective OECD membership motivated reforms<br \/>\nin regulatory policies and trade. These countries sought to benefit from the status of association with<br \/>\nthe advanced industrial democracies. On the basis of shared liberal orientation and geopolitical alignment,<br \/>\nthese outsiders were accepted into the club. At the same time, a case study of Brazil highlights<br \/>\nhow its refusal to seek OECD membership reflects a political preference to remain distant from the<br \/>\nadvanced industrial nations even as its economy and policies are more integrated with these states.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than Just a Rich Country Club: Membership Conditionality and Institutional Reform in the OECD Speaker:\u00a0\u00a0  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[308],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-57440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-graspp-research-seminar"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57440"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graspp.neopa.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=57440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}