Joseph Jupille‘s Research Page

July 2009

 

My research centers on the role of institutions in politics and the political economy.  I am especially interested in exploring the tension between institutions as objects of human creation or choice and independent sources of human constraint.  To date I have mostly explored these issues in the context of the European Union (EU), but I am increasingly directing my research toward the political economy of trade governance more generally.

 

Papers will be made available at my Social Science Research Network (SSRN) page on an ongoing basis.

 

Please email me with questions, comments or requests.

 

I. In preparation

 

A. Articles

 

“The Choice of International Institutions: Cooperation, Alternatives and Strategies” (with Walter Mattli and Duncan Snidal)

  • Summary: The institutional strategies that actors pursue –whether to use, select, change or create institutions—reflect the interaction between the nature of the cooperation problem and the properties of the institutional status quo.
  • Status: In revisions, submission expected late 2009.
  • Link: SSRN.

 

“Referendum Voting on the European Constitution” (with David Leblang)

  • Summary: Calculation, community, cues and complexity drive individuals’ vote choices in EU referendums.
  • Status: Needs work.

 

B. Books

 

Institutional Choice in International Commerce (with Walter Mattli and Duncan Snidal)

  • Summary: Book-length treatment of problem of institutional choice in international commerce, taking the Jupille-Snidal-Mattli framing paper (see above) as a point of departure and testing its implications across a range of empirical terrain in the area of international commerce.  Empirics include the Mixed Courts of Egypt, trade and development, nontariff barriers, trade in services, financial accounting standards.
  • Status: Manuscript nearing completion. Submission expected Fall 2009.

 

Theories of Institutions (with James A. Caporaso)

  • Summary: Synthesis of political, sociological, economic and historical institutional theory, with original contributions surrounding solutions to the endogeneity problem in institutional analysis.
  • Status: Under contract with Cambridge University Press.  Submission expected end 2009.
  • Links: Draft prospectus of May 11, 2006.

 

Trading Rules: Forum Shopping Within and Among International Institutions

  • Summary: Explains actors’ selection of given sets of trade rules from among a plural menu of extant options.
  • Status: Planning stages.
  • Links: Draft prospectus of June 6, 2006.

 

II. Completed/Published

 

A. Articles and Chapters

 

Jupille, Joseph, and James A. Caporaso. 2009. “Domesticating Discourses: European Law, English Judges and Political Institutions.” European Political Science Review 1, 2 (July): 205-228.

  • Summary: English judicial discourses reveal increasing levels and rates of “indigenization” of previously alien and constitutionally subversive European legal principles.
  • Links: Final Paper | Journal | SSRN

 

Jupille, Joseph, and David Leblang. 2007. “Voting for Change: Calculation, Community and Euro Referendums”.  International Organization 61, 4 (Fall): 763-782.

  • Summary: “Calculation” and “community” operate in predictable ways as determinants of individual-level preferences over the single European currency.
  • Links: Final Paper & Erratum (Cambridge journals) | SSRN

 

Jupille, Joseph. 2007. “Contested Procedures: Ambiguities, Interstices and EU Institutional Change”.  West European Politics 30, 2 (March): 301-320.

  • Summary: Fights over legislative procedures represent a form of competence contestation in the European Union, wherein ambiguous treaties beget strategic responses which in turn beget subsequent treaty changes.
  • Links: Final Paper (Routledge) | SSRN

 

Jupille, Joseph. 2005. “Knowing Europe: Metatheory and Methodology in EU Studies”. In Palgrave Advances in European Union Studies, edited by Michelle Cini and Angela Bourne, 209-232. London: Palgrave.

  • Summary: Assesses the role played by metatheory and methodology in European Union Studies.
  • Links: Final Paper | Brief version (APSA EPS newsletter)

 

Jupille, Joseph. 2005. “Natural, Economic, and Political Borders: Trade and Environmental Protection in the European Court of Justice.”  In Courts Crossing Borders: Blurring the Lines of Sovereignty, edited by John Stack and Mary Volcansek, 63-84.  Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

  • Summary: ECJ jurisprudence on trade and environment illustrates tensions and interrelationships among natural, economic, and political borders, with complex implications for state sovereignty.
  • Link: Final Paper

 

Caporaso, James A., and Joseph Jupille. 2004. “Sovereignty and Territoriality in the European Union: Transforming the UK Institutional Order.” In On Restructuring Territoriality: Europe and the United States Compared, edited by Christopher Ansell and Giuseppe Di Palma, 67-89.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

  • Summary: Development of European Union law is transforming the British institutional order, representing an unbundling of territory and authority and hence a modification of Westphalian sovereignty.
  • Link: Final Paper

 

Jupille, Joseph, James A. Caporaso, and Jeffrey T. Checkel. 2003. “Integrating Institutions: Rationalism, Constructivism, and the Study of the European Union.” Comparative Political Studies 36, 1-2 (February/March): 7-40.

  • Summary: Metatheoretical debate between rationalists and constructivists should give way to theoretical and empirical dialogue.  Proposes specific models of theoretical dialogue and specific research designs capable of implementing them, guiding the inquiries of the authors included in the collective volume to which this is the introduction.
  • Link: Final Paper (Sage) | SSRN

 

Caporaso, James A., and Joseph Jupille. 2001. “The Europeanization of Gender Equality Policy and Domestic Structural Change.”  In Transforming Europe: Europeanization and Domestic Change, edited by Maria Green Cowles, James A. Caporaso, and Thomas Risse, 21-43.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

  • Summary: Europeanization of gender equality policy produces domestic structural change as a function of the goodness of fit between European and national norms and the mediating effects of pre-existing domestic institutions.  Comparative case studies on the UK and France, leveraging both within-case and across-case variation, confirms the hypothesis.
  • Link: Final Paper

 

Jupille, Joseph, and James A. Caporaso. 1999. “Institutionalism and the European Union: Beyond Comparative Politics and International Relations.” Annual Review of Political Science 2: 429-444.

  • Summary: The institutional turn in EU Studies has enabled the field to transcend the International Relations/Comparative Politics divide, and both to draw on and contribute to mainline issues within the discipline of political science.
  • Links: Final Paper (Annual Reviews) | SSRN

 

Jupille, Joseph. 1999. “The European Union and International Outcomes.” International Organization 53, 2 (Spring): 409-425.

  • Summary: Changes in European Union decision rules can decisively alter international bargaining outcomes.  Most similar systems comparative case study design leverages EU institutional changes to explain variation in outcomes in international hazardous waste and ozone negotiations.
  • Links: Final Paper (JSTOR) | SSRN

 

Jupille, Joseph. 1998. “Sovereignty, Environment, and Subsidiarity in the European Union.”  In The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics, edited by Karen T. Litfin, 223-254.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

  • Summary: EU’s response to environmental challenges, including the subsidiarity concept, help us to understand broader issues surrounding environmental protection and state sovereignty.
  • Link: Final Paper

 

Jupille, Joseph, and James A. Caporaso. 1998. “States, Agency, and Rules: the European Union in Global Environmental Politics.”  In The European Union in the World Community, edited by Carolyn Rhodes, 213-229.  Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.

  • Summary: Conceptually unpacks the EU as an actor and uses the themes developed to examine EU activity in global environmental politics, with particular attention to 1992 Earth Summit negotiations.
  • Link: Final Paper

 

B. Books & Edited Collections

 

Jupille, Joseph.  Procedural Politics: Issues, Influence, and Institutional Choice in the European Union.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

 

Jupille, Joseph, James A. Caporaso, and Jeffrey T. Checkel, eds.  2003.  Integrating Institutions: Rationalism, Constructivism, and the Study of the European Union.  Special Issue of Comparative Political Studies (36, 1-2, February/March 2003).

  • Summary: Metatheoretical debate between rationalists and constructivists should give way to theoretical and empirical dialogue.  Proposes specific models of theoretical dialogue and specific research designs capable of implementing them, guiding the inquiries of the authors included in the collective volume to which this is the introduction.
  • Link: Preface

 

C. Other Publications

 

Curtis, Amber, and Joseph Jupille. “The European Union.” International Encyclopedia of Political Science, forthcoming.

 

Jupille, Joseph. “The Legal Basis Game and European Governance.”  Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) Report 2006:12. Stockholm: SIEPS.

  • Summary: Disputes over the legal basis of EU legislation occur systematically and have important legal and political consequences.  Practitioners should learn the legal basis game and play it as long as necessary; at the same time, they should work within the (post-?) constitutional process to eliminate the conditions that give rise to it.
  • Link: Final Paper (SIEPS)

 

Hanson, Stephen E., Joseph Jupille, David J. Olson, and Barry Weingast. 2004. “Margaret Levi: Institutions, Individuals, Organizations, and Trust in Democratic Regimes.” PS: Political Science and Politics 37, 4 (October): 885-888.

·         Link: Final Paper (Cambridge journals)