Publication
Title
Victims of their own success abroad? Why the withdrawal of US transparency rules is hindered by diffusion to the EU and Canada
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Abstract
Recent years have seen significant efforts to reduce corruption in the oil, gas and mineral industries. Under the Obama administration, rules were adopted obliging stock-exchange-listed extraction companies to disclose payments to domestic and foreign governments, an initiative which soon spread to the European Union and Canada. Under Trump, however, policy preferences changed, and the disclosure requirements were withdrawn. This article investigates how diffusion of United States (US) disclosure rules has mitigated the effects of the withdrawal process through insights on norm diffusion, market power and rules applicable beyond states territorial borders. It is argued that when (1) rules with broad external applicability (2) diffuse to multiple influential jurisdictions and (3) address large multinationals in (4) an internationally interdependent sector, global standards of regulation may emerge. As these conditions are largely (although not entirely) fulfilled, it is likely that most large US multinationals will remain at least partially subject to payment disclosure obligations.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of European public policy. - London
Publication
London : 2019
ISSN
1350-1763
DOI
10.1080/13501763.2018.1443490
Volume/pages
26 :3 (2019) , p. 446-467
ISI
000454833600008
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Bureaucracy despite reforms: does a history of intensive structural reforms make public sector organizations more bureaucratic (again)?
Publication type
Subject
Law 
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Creation 08.03.2018
Last edited 04.03.2024
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