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More than Just a Rich Country Club: Membership<\/b><\/p>\n
Conditionality <\/b>and Institutional Reform in the OECD<\/b><\/p>\n
Speaker:\u00a0\u00a0 Christina Davis, Professor, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Politics, Princeton University<\/p>\n
Date:\u00a0 \u00a0 Friday, 8th of July, 10:30-12:00<\/p>\n
Venue:\u00a0 Room 610, Administration Building #2<\/p>\n
Language: English<\/p>\n
This seminar is open to all UTokyo students.<\/span><\/p>\n Abstract: Reference:<\/p>\n
\nConditional membership may be one of the most important sources of leverage for IOs. What
\nunderlies the terms of selection and the willingness of applicants to pay the price of entry? The
\ninfluence of accession conditions has been studied in the context of EU and NATO, where sizable
\nbenefits motivate major concessions by applicants. This paper examines a much less powerful organization,
\nthe OECD. The organization provides both public goods in the form of policy information
\nand club goods in the form of status. Through a process of self-selection by applicants and screening
\nby members, the organization has managed gradual expansion while preserving its value as an elite
\nclub of like-minded states. Informality of accession criteria has allowed flexibility to raise and lower
\nthe bar for entry. Statistical analysis highlights broad conditions related to income, democracy, and
\ngeopolitics that correlate with earlier entry into the OECD relative to other countries while there are
\nless clear patterns for the role of trade and financial openness. Case studies of Japan, Mexico, Korea,
\nand the Czech Republic are used to examine how prospective OECD membership motivated reforms
\nin regulatory policies and trade. These countries sought to benefit from the status of association with
\nthe advanced industrial democracies. On the basis of shared liberal orientation and geopolitical alignment,
\nthese outsiders were accepted into the club. At the same time, a case study of Brazil highlights
\nhow its refusal to seek OECD membership reflects a political preference to remain distant from the
\nadvanced industrial nations even as its economy and policies are more integrated with these states.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n