Peer-reviewed publication
Domestic institutions and the ratification of international agreements in a panel of democracies
- Authors
- Kiesow Cortez, Florian and Gutmann, Jerg
- Publication
- Constitutional Political Economy
- Year
- 2017
- Volume / issue
- 28 (2)
- Pages / article
- 142-166
- First published
- 2017-02-16
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Kiesow Cortez, Florian and Gutmann, Jerg (2017). Domestic institutions and the ratification of international agreements in a panel of democracies, Constitutional Political Economy 28(2):142-166. DOI Full Text
Constitutional design
Research summary
A panel of 99 democracies from 1975 to 2010 is used to test how domestic institutions shape entry into international agreements. Majoritarian electoral systems are associated with fewer agreements, while older democratic institutions and the absence of an independent judiciary are associated with more; party programmaticness and the number of veto players show no robust relationship.