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REGIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY: AN ANALYSIS OF
CONTINGENT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN REGIME-LEVEL AND
ORGANIZATIONAL-LEVEL VARIABLES.
by
Ron Lehavi
_________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)
May 2010
Copyright 2010 Ron Lehavi
Object Description
| Title | Regional trade association and civil society: an analysis of contingent interactions between regime-level and organizational-level variables |
| Author | Lehavi, Ron |
| Author email | rlehavi@socal.rr.com; lehavi@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Politics & International Relations |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-03-24 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-05-08 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Barnes, John |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dekmejian, Richard James, Patrick |
| Abstract | Since World War II, we have witnessed the growth of regional trade regimes and the emergence of an international civil society, which consists of organizations dedicated to activism within and across nation states. This confluence of development raises fundamental questions about the relationship between international regimes and civil society. This dissertation focuses on the political implications of the development of different styles of regional-international regimes on their civil society, and on the corresponding, mediating effects of organizational level contingencies. This exploration, further addresses the debate as to whether regimes matter or not.; This project finds that regimes do matter, but their effect varies widely. At one extreme, regimes whose regulatory style is characterized by bureaucratic retreatism, such as MERCOSUR, because of their lack of institutional capacity and excessive corruption, tend to develop the widest opportunity structures, which allow their civil society to actively define its unique style of activism. On the other extreme, regimes whose regulatory style is characterized by bureaucratic legalism, such as the European Union, tend to create an organizational environment consisting of relatively narrow opportunity structures with clearly institutionalized range of options for their civil society to engage the regime.; This project also finds that organizations matter. Specifically, organizations that are tightly coupled tend to have a greater probability for independent activism and for less variability across regime in terms of their pattern of strategic engagement. In contrast, organizations that are less tightly coupled tend to display a higher range of variability across regimes and a greater probability for less independent activism. Moreover, while organizations that are resource dependent tend to be less independent, organizations that are not resource dependent have a greater tendency to maintain independence from the regime.; In short, this dissertation finds that both regimes and organizations matter and that understanding the complex interaction among these variables is critical to understanding how civil society functions within and across national boundaries. Apart from addressing the broad debate, this research helped expand the theoretical knowledge within the State and Society literature and bridge the gap between several subfields of political science. |
| Keyword | civil society; contingencies; regime; free trade agreements; state and society; regime matters |
| Coverage date | 1994/2009 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3031 |
| Rights | Lehavi, Ron |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Lehavi-3710 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Lehavi-3710.pdf |
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| Full text | REGIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY: AN ANALYSIS OF CONTINGENT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN REGIME-LEVEL AND ORGANIZATIONAL-LEVEL VARIABLES. by Ron Lehavi _________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) May 2010 Copyright 2010 Ron Lehavi |
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