000318736 001__ 318736 000318736 005__ 20250106131619.0 000318736 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1080/09644016.2024.2347162 000318736 037__ $$aARTICLE 000318736 245__ $$aSearching for a recipe for success$$benvironmental citizen petitions under free trade agreements 000318736 269__ $$a2025 000318736 336__ $$aJournal Articles 000318736 520__ $$aSubmissions 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. 000318736 542__ $$fOpen access article, Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 000318736 580__ $$aIn: Environmental Politics. - Vol. 34(2025), no 1, pages 1-26 000318736 6531_ $$aCivil Society 000318736 6531_ $$aEnvironment and the Anthropocene 000318736 6531_ $$aTrade and Work 000318736 700__ $$aLaurens, Noémie 000318736 8564_ $$902bed9c8-74ff-4087-8621-93f34c3000fd$$s2385744$$uhttps://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/318736/files/Searching%20for%20a%20recipe%20for%20success%20environmental%20citizen%20petitions%20under%20free%20trade%20agreements.pdf 000318736 901__ $$uCentre for Trade and Economic Integration 000318736 909CO $$ooai:repository.graduateinstitute.ch:318736$$pGLOBAL_SET$$pIHEID:Explore 000318736 981__ $$aoverwrite