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Book chapter · Megaregulation Contested: Global Economic Ordering After TPP · 2019

Structuring Participation: Public Comments and the Dynamics of US Trade Negotiations

Robert Gulotty

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The Trade Regime & Its HistoryFirms & Global Supply Chains

In brief

Before and during negotiations, the United States Trade Representative solicits public comments on what an agreement should contain. This chapter, in the volume’s section on the national politics of megaregulatory agreements, examines how that participation process structures which interests are heard in negotiations such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Keywords public comments, USTR, Trans-Pacific Partnership, interest groups, trade negotiations

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Robert Gulotty. 2019. “Structuring Participation: Public Comments and the Dynamics of US Trade Negotiations.” In Megaregulation Contested: Global Economic Ordering After TPP, edited by B. Kingsbury, D. M. Malone, P. Mertenskötter, R. B. Stewart, T. Streinz, and A. Sunami. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825296.003.0027

@incollection{gulotty2019structuring,
  author = {Robert Gulotty},
  title = {Structuring Participation: Public Comments and the Dynamics of US Trade Negotiations},
  booktitle = {Megaregulation Contested: Global Economic Ordering After TPP},
  editor = {B. Kingsbury, D. M. Malone, P. Mertenskötter, R. B. Stewart, T. Streinz, and A. Sunami},
  publisher = {Oxford University Press},
  year = {2019},
  doi = {10.1093/oso/9780198825296.003.0027}
}

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