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Incidents along the Path: Understanding the Rationale behind the EU–Chile Association Agreement
Author(s) -
GARCIA MARIA
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02149.x
Subject(s) - negotiation , explanatory power , association (psychology) , european union , process tracing , agreement , political science , process (computing) , path (computing) , path dependence , positive economics , epistemology , economics , international trade , law , computer science , politics , microeconomics , operating system , philosophy , programming language , linguistics
Relying on process‐tracing, this article shows how changing institutional settings help to explain the unexpected decision for the European Union to negotiate its most extensive Association with Chile, and reveals the explanatory power of historical‐institutionalist approaches as an optimum framework for the understanding of seemingly inconsistent policy decisions.