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| compliance Although, there is a growing literature on scientific estimates and regulatory instruments for international efforts to control greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the underlying political collective action processes have been neglected. We focus on the impact of uncertainty in assessing the benefits and costs of global warming regulation on constituencies and politicians in the bargaining countries. Uncertainty arises due to basic information problems about the net effects of global warming, its regulation, and compliance by sovereign countries. We outline a two-stage analytical framework that describes the positions taken by representatives of negotiating countries and the internal public choice tradeoffs facing politicians when constituents are faced with differential and uncertain effects. We apply the framework to the Law of the Sea Treaty of 1982 | |||||||||||||||
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