The negotiations of a tax agreement between Switzerland and Germany : double trouble in double-level diplomacy

This ePaper analyses the negotiations of an agreement on tax cooperation between Switzerland and Germany in 2012. The paper looks at the importance of the balance of power and reveals how domestic constraints and a shrinking win-set can affect double-level negotiations. It also offers an illustratio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Nagelmackers-Voinov, Misha Author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] Graduate Institute Publications 2014
2014
Colección:eCahiers de l'Institut ; Number 24
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Sumario:This ePaper analyses the negotiations of an agreement on tax cooperation between Switzerland and Germany in 2012. The paper looks at the importance of the balance of power and reveals how domestic constraints and a shrinking win-set can affect double-level negotiations. It also offers an illustration of how governments can shape domestic politics by using international debates while still facing conflicting interests along the increasingly blurred line of domestic and international interests. It argues that the failure of international negotiations comes from actors misreading their own domestic political or ratification processes, rather than from parties’ incomplete information about each other’s political or ratification processes. Most of all, it shows how “politically constructed ideologies” and stereotypical views – in this case the definition of "fair" taxes or the concept of "privacy" – make it nearly impossible to reach an agreement.
Notas:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Descripción Física:1 online resource (100 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9782940503520