Democracy-related provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements
Our project contributes to studying the relationship between trade agreements and democracy by presenting a new, comprehensive database on democracy-related provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs). The data is unique in its coverage and data creation approach. First, it is the most systematic and in-depth collection of democracy-related provisions in PTAs. It includes obligations to promote democracy, the protection of individual rights, alongside other important democracy-related provisions to increase transparency and stakeholder participation, and to preserve policy space. Second, it combines manual text coding and machine learning approaches to generate the dataset and two types of new indices. For more information about the dataset, please refer to our research note (see reference below).
Please cite as, Manfred Elsig, Kirthana Ganeson, Andrew Lugg, and Marine Roux. Trade agreements and the design of democracy-related provisions (TRADEM): The creation of a new data set. The Review of International Organizations (Accepted).
