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http://cps.sagepub.com Global Linkages and Domestic Politics: Trade Reform and Institution Building in India in Comparative Perspective

Aseema Sinha Comparative Political Studies 2007; 40; 1183 DOI: 10.1177/0010414007304669 The online version of this article can be found at: http://cps.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/40/10/1183

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Trade Reform and Institution Building in India in Comparative Perspective

Aseema Sinha

University of Wisconsin–Madison

This article examines how the World Trade Organization (WTO) affects institutional development and policy responses in India. India is a country traditionally resistant to external pressures but in which participation in an international organization stimulated a transformation in trade policy processes and procedures and unleashed a new bureaucratic politics, institutional innovation, and activation of policy–expert linkages. The author argues that we go beyond zero-sum assumptions in understanding the relationship between globalization and national state institutions. Key rules of international organizations increase transaction and sovereignty costs for states, which may catalyze new domestic capacities and create the...