INTERNATIONAL Globalization and ISO 14001 trading up or trading down ?
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1) This article is an abridged version of “ Racing to the Bottom ? Trade, Environmental Governance, and ISO 14001”, American Journal of Political Science, 2006, 50(2), pp. 347-361. The authors gratefully acknowledge the permission of Blackwell Publishing. For the unabridged version, including a description of the methodology used by the authors in their research, see : http://faculty.washington.edu/ aseem/iso-ajps.pdf
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