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Wang, P. (2013)

Understanding China's Trade Legal Reforms In The Backdrop of WTO - A Cross-National Study

Master thesis | Political Science (MSc)

This paper analyzes the impact of acquisition of membership of international organization (in this case, WTO) on member states' domestic trade laws reforms. For this end, multilevel governance theory is used to pinpoint the conductive roles of state authority, industry and local norm system in the indigenization of international laws.

China

WTO

Legal reforms

Japan

Author

Wang, P.

Note

Three approaches: actor-centered approaches, process-centered approach and insitutionalism nowadays are utilized for analyses of transnational governance. In this paper, actor-centered approach is selected. It provides a reference point to similar researches on the same topic in the future.

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Political Science (Master)

Supervisors

Chalmers, A.W.
Ragazzi, F.P.S.M.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en