Affiliation:
1. Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
Abstract
Examining selective politicization across the TTIP and JEEPA negotiations, as well as across the UK and German trade positions, the societal approach to governmental preference formation is applied to test the hypothesis that when an EU trade agreement negotiation affects various domestic stakeholders (interest groups, trade unions, NGOs, and voters) and these form coalitions, either reinforcing or competing with each other's demands, politicization is likely to dominate government preference formation processes, while on the other hand, when coalition-building between domestic stakeholders is largely absent and demands do not conflict, then politicization is unlikely to shape governments' trade positions.
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