The Impact of Minimal Participation Rules on Multilateral Cooperation

• In Event: Designing International Cooperation

Brief Overview

Building on institutional choice theories, we argue that ratification thresholds allow states to manage uncertainty about the future and other states’ behaviour, thereby creating incentives to participate in multilateral treaties.

Authors

• Christian Arnold, Cardiff University

• Douglas B Atkinson, Cardiff University

• Carsten-Andreas Schulz, Institute of Political Science, Pontificia Universidad Cat ´olica de Chile