TY - GEN AB - Submissions on enforcement matters (SEMs) allow civil society members to assert that one party to a free trade agreement (FTA) is failing to enforce its domestic environmental laws. Submissions that survive every step of the SEM process result in a ‘factual record’ prepared by a secretariat on enforcement matters. Relying on qualitative comparative analysis and an original dataset compiling the 158 SEMs submitted under the framework of US FTAs, I investigate what conditions make submissions more likely to succeed in leading to a factual record. I find that the existence of previous submissions dealing with the same facts, submissions against developing countries, and the presence of at least one non-governmental organization as a submitter contribute to a submission’s success, but only in conjunction with other conditions and for a limited number of cases. This result provides overall evidence that secretariats’ decisions are unbiased by the factors examined in this paper. AU - Laurens, Noémie DA - 2025 DO - 10.1080/09644016.2024.2347162 DO - doi ID - 318736 KW - Civil Society KW - Environment and the Anthropocene KW - Trade and Work L1 - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/318736/files/Searching%20for%20a%20recipe%20for%20success%20environmental%20citizen%20petitions%20under%20free%20trade%20agreements.pdf L2 - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/318736/files/Searching%20for%20a%20recipe%20for%20success%20environmental%20citizen%20petitions%20under%20free%20trade%20agreements.pdf L4 - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/318736/files/Searching%20for%20a%20recipe%20for%20success%20environmental%20citizen%20petitions%20under%20free%20trade%20agreements.pdf LK - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/318736/files/Searching%20for%20a%20recipe%20for%20success%20environmental%20citizen%20petitions%20under%20free%20trade%20agreements.pdf N2 - Submissions on enforcement matters (SEMs) allow civil society members to assert that one party to a free trade agreement (FTA) is failing to enforce its domestic environmental laws. Submissions that survive every step of the SEM process result in a ‘factual record’ prepared by a secretariat on enforcement matters. Relying on qualitative comparative analysis and an original dataset compiling the 158 SEMs submitted under the framework of US FTAs, I investigate what conditions make submissions more likely to succeed in leading to a factual record. I find that the existence of previous submissions dealing with the same facts, submissions against developing countries, and the presence of at least one non-governmental organization as a submitter contribute to a submission’s success, but only in conjunction with other conditions and for a limited number of cases. This result provides overall evidence that secretariats’ decisions are unbiased by the factors examined in this paper. PY - 2025 T1 - Searching for a recipe for successenvironmental citizen petitions under free trade agreements TI - Searching for a recipe for successenvironmental citizen petitions under free trade agreements UR - https://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/318736/files/Searching%20for%20a%20recipe%20for%20success%20environmental%20citizen%20petitions%20under%20free%20trade%20agreements.pdf Y1 - 2025 ER -