Wealth and the democratization of Global Economic Governance

This chapter shows that the relationship between countries' wealth and global advocacy is best characterized as a curvilinear u-shaped slope. What is the relation between countries' wealth and global advocacy? This question is central to both political science scholars interested in uncovering the conditions that promote the proliferation of global advocacy, and normative scholars advancing the debate on the merits of different strategies of democratization of global governance. Moreover, the judicial system of the World Trade Organization is one of the cornerstones in global economic politics. The chapter proposes an alternative view about the relationship between countries' wealth and their representation within global interest communities. In exploring the dynamics of evolution of interest group communities at the domestic level, scholars have pointed out how their density and diversity are crucially affected by the nature of state economies.