Policy Space and Policy Autonomy under the WTO: A Comparison of Post-Crisis Industrial Policies in Brazil and the US
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Ada Bogliolo Piancastelli Siqueira
Abstract
Legal scholars engaged with the Law and Development literature usually propose two subtypes of scholarship. One type looks at a given law and tries to fix it, assuming that there is a positive relationship between law and socio-economic change. The second type of scholarship challenges the assumptions about the nature of the relationship between law and socio-economic change. This paper is situated in the second group. By analyzing domestic and international legal regimes and how they relate to domestic and international economic policy, this article addresses the disparities between the relative capacities of countries in different developmental trajectories to innovate in terms of industrial policies. This paper offers a distinction between the concepts of policy space and policy autonomy within the World Trade Organizations’ legal framework that reflects how countries with different regulatory traditions interact with the world trade regime. Focusing on the industrial policies implemented by the United States and Brazil in the period after the 2007–2009 economic crisis, it compares the room for policy space and policy autonomy under the WTO regime.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Redefining and Analyzing “Development” and the Role and Rule of Law
- Articles
- The Paradoxical Roles of Property Rights in Growth and Development
- Yong-Shik Lee, “Call for a New Analytical Model for Law and Development”: A Comment
- Initial Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Rule of Law Studies
- The Importance of the Thin Conception of the Rule of Law for International Development: A Decision-Theoretic Account
- Tracking the Law and Development Continuum through Multiple Intersections
- The World Bank’s Sustainable Development Approach and the Need for a Unified Field of Law and Development Studies in Argentina
- Policy Space and Policy Autonomy under the WTO: A Comparison of Post-Crisis Industrial Policies in Brazil and the US
- Toward an Elaboration of a More Pluralistic Legal Landscape for Developing West African Countries: Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) and Law and Development
- Conceptualizing the Developmental State in Resource-Rich Sub-Saharan Africa
- Trade, Development and Child Labor: Regulation and Law in the Case of Child Labor in the Cocoa Industry
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Redefining and Analyzing “Development” and the Role and Rule of Law
- Articles
- The Paradoxical Roles of Property Rights in Growth and Development
- Yong-Shik Lee, “Call for a New Analytical Model for Law and Development”: A Comment
- Initial Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Rule of Law Studies
- The Importance of the Thin Conception of the Rule of Law for International Development: A Decision-Theoretic Account
- Tracking the Law and Development Continuum through Multiple Intersections
- The World Bank’s Sustainable Development Approach and the Need for a Unified Field of Law and Development Studies in Argentina
- Policy Space and Policy Autonomy under the WTO: A Comparison of Post-Crisis Industrial Policies in Brazil and the US
- Toward an Elaboration of a More Pluralistic Legal Landscape for Developing West African Countries: Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) and Law and Development
- Conceptualizing the Developmental State in Resource-Rich Sub-Saharan Africa
- Trade, Development and Child Labor: Regulation and Law in the Case of Child Labor in the Cocoa Industry
