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Diehl, Paul F. Diehl, Paul F. Allee, Todd L. Ku, Charlotte Dai, Xinyuan Irish, Adam 2013-05-24T22:17:38Z 2013-05-24T22:17:38Z 2015-05-24T10:00:53Z 2013-05 2013-05-24T22:17:38Z 2013-05 States spend years and tremendous diplomatic capital negotiating treaties. Yet, despite the best efforts of skilled negotiators, some states wait for months, years, and even decades, to ratify the treaties they took part in negotiating. In this dissertation, I investigate the phenomenon of ratification delay and attempt to provide an explanation for why some states wait to ratify treaties while others do not. In order to build a theory of ratification timing, I recast the two-level game metaphor to account of the strategic behavior of state legislatures and constraints of the ratification process. I test this theory on an original dataset of state ratifications for a specific cluster of treaties: The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and its implementing treaties. My findings indicate that previous studies of ratification have overestimated the importance of the states leaders and underestimated the importance of legislators and the institutional ratification requirements. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-04-17T18:04:57Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Irish_Adam.docx: 1927347 bytes, checksum: 676720cc2b2ab6b2355350eb595150c1 (MD5) Irish_Adam.pdf: 3418157 bytes, checksum: 4f63658e5a475c66b00e362064207141 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-24T22:17:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Adam_Irish.pdf: 3418157 bytes, checksum: 4f63658e5a475c66b00e362064207141 (MD5) Irish_Adam.docx: 1927347 bytes, checksum: 676720cc2b2ab6b2355350eb595150c1 (MD5) license.txt: 4058 bytes, checksum: 1377e77d791b1a19e1cb2190fb19996d (MD5) Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:36:18-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: 2015-05-24 17:18:31 UTC Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Seth Robbins (srobbins@illinois.edu) on 2013-05-24T22:19:20Z Item is restricted until 2015-05-24T22:18:31Z U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 44453 on 2015-05-24T10:00:53Z. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/44480 en Copyright 2013 Adam Irish Treaty Ratification Law of the Sea Wait 'til next year? The politics and timing of treaty ratification text Political Science 1710 Political Science 0343 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Political Science -UIUC 10KS0343PHD