Shaping Global Rules: Proprietary Pharmaceutical Companies as Global Political Actors

Muzaka, Valbona

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“…Indeed, civil society groups have played an important role in re-embedding trade in a broader societal sphere, by pushing for the inclusion of environmental (and labor) standards in trade agreements, whether in the EU (Ahnlid, 2013;Hannah, 2016) or the US (Aaronson, 2001;Aggarwal, 2013;Destler & Balint, 1999;Kay & Evans, 2018). Likewise, the expanding scope of trade negotiations in new regulatory fields has long been traced to the mobilization of individual companies and industry associations, whether this relates to investment, rules of origins, and trade facilitation (e.g., Chase, 2003;Ravenhill, 2017), intellectual property rights (Muzaka, 2009;Sell & Prakash, 2004) or digital trade (Azmeh et al, 2020).…”

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Enduring disembeddedness? Understanding the persistence of trade disconnects in US digital trade policy

Velut

2023

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<p>The ever-expanding regulatory scope of “new generation” trade agreements has created new linkages, and thus, new spheres of political conflicts opposing advocates of trade liberalization and free trade critics seeking to make globalization more socially responsible. Scholars have provided different explanations to understand the determining factors behind attempts to re-embed trade, but little attention has been given to the persistence of “trade disconnects”—as opposed to trade linkages—between economic issues and social or environmental externalities that, at the domestic level, can hardly be dissociated. This article proposes to analyze the dynamics and factors of what might be described as persistent disconnects or enduring “disembeddedness” in US trade policy-making. To do so, it examines US digital trade policy and its mixed social record by comparing two issues: labor rights and data privacy. This article builds upon recent scholarship on deliberative forms of exclusion in trade policy-making to track the hidden dynamics of “non-decision-making.” It demonstrates that discursive, institutional, inter-scalar, and countermobilizing processes have restricted the terms of political participation and perpetuated a disconnect between digital trade and labor rights, by contrast with the growing trade linkages with data privacy.</p>

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Enduring disembeddedness? Understanding the persistence of trade disconnects in US digital trade policy

Velut

2023

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“…There is a substantial literature that highlights the role of individual corporations, albeit with a strong bias, no doubt reflecting reality, towards large corporations, including multinational corporations (MNCs) active in both domestic and international contexts (Muzaka, 2009;Nölke and May, 2018;Ruggie, 2018). At this juncture, we move into other areas of research not always strongly associated with the study of public policy per se, where specialists on corporate affairs are less inclined to address public policy, and where public policy scholars are inattentive to the specific role of business.…”

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Business and public policy: introducing the field

Kellow¹,

Porter²,

Ronit³

2021

Handbook of Business and Public Policy

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What is the relationship between business and public policy? Daily news headlines about the corrupting influence of business on government, governmental success in collaborating with business to implement policies in new ways, or international trade and investment negotiations, are all reminders, along with countless others, that business and public policy are interwoven in a great variety of complex and often very high-stakes ways. This complex relationship between business and public policy is evolving through time, together with the accumulated understandings of this relationship generated by those who study it, adding further complexity. In this chapter we provide an overview of this evolution, highlighting key continuities and changes, pointing both to insights that have illuminated the relationship between business and public policy, and gaps in our knowledge that remain to be explored.The chapter is organized into three sections. The first section of this chapter sets out key features of the practice and study of business and public policy that have remained continuously relevant throughout the decades since World War II. These key features include characteristics of and variations within the three main types of actors that are relevant to this field of practice and study -government, business and civil society. These key features also include characteristics of the interactions between these key actors.The second section of this chapter focuses on three interrelated processes of change evident as the practice and study of business and public policy has evolved. The first process of change is a generalized shift from more formal hierarchical organization to more fluid networked organization, which has affected all three types of actors. The second process of change is a much more active and direct contesting of business authority by civil society in the making of public policy. The third process of change is globalization, which has shifted the focus of business and public policy away from a more exclusive focus on the nation-state to one that includes cross-border and global locations and issues.The third and concluding section of this chapter highlights the relevance of insights from the field of business and public policy for some urgent and crucial contemporary public problems, pointing to some future research directions for the field.Understanding this process of historical transformation is helpful not just in appreciating the legacy of the near past, but also in anticipating the future, and what questions need to be asked about it. These questions have an urgency that is amplified by the severity of current challenges that the relationship between business and public policy is implicated in and expectations about the activation or altering of this

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Trade Policy

Velut

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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Shaping Global Rules: Proprietary Pharmaceutical Companies as Global Political Actors

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Enduring disembeddedness? Understanding the persistence of trade disconnects in US digital trade policy

Enduring disembeddedness? Understanding the persistence of trade disconnects in US digital trade policy

Business and public policy: introducing the field

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