Interests, Institutions, and the Environment: An Examination of Fisheries Subsidies

Abstract Protecting the environment has emerged as one of major challenges in international relations. In environmental negotiations, countries hold divergent positions because domestic politics and specifically interaction interests institutions. Domestic political institutions privilege some groups over others, depending on their geographic distribution. This observation matters for global cooperation with varied protecting often exhibit different patterns, illustrated negotiations fisheries subsidies at World Trade Organization (WTO). The fishing industry tends to be concentrated space its reliance a geographically specific natural resource. industry’s concentration gives it relatively more clout plurality electoral systems. Environmentalists, who tend diffuse geographically, enjoy greater influence proportional representation systems party-centered competition. These dynamics, well success Green parties, governments’ spending priorities states’ negotiations.