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Measuring the Effects of Post-Convention Activities at the HCCH /

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Title/Author:	Measuring the Effects of Post-Convention Activities at the HCCH // Ke Zhang.
Author:	Zhang, Ke,
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Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: B.
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Measuring the Effects of Post-Convention Activities at the HCCH /
Zhang, Ke,

Measuring the Effects of Post-Convention Activities at the HCCH /Ke Zhang. - 1 electronic resource (505 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-03, Section: B.

The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH hereafter in the thesis) is an intergovernmental organization with a mandate to harmonize the rules of private international law. Its work has two core focuses. The traditional core work is instrument-making. Since the 1950s, it has established 39 Conventions and a soft law instrument. Since the late 1970s, it has been engaging in various post-Convention activities. These activities have become another core work of this international organization and have been expanding so much that they have taken over half of the work time of the HCCH. An important question arises: should the HCCH continue these activities? The thesis focuses on the usefulness of post-Convention activities in improving the performance of the Hague Conventions, assessed in terms of ratifications. It answers the research question by exploring, through quantitative analysis, whether these activities are associated with the performance of the Conventions in terms of attracting ratifications.After quantifying the overall performance in attracting ratifications and the post-Convention activities for each Convention, the overall performance in attracting ratifications, as the dependent variable, is regressed against the post-Convention activities, as the independent variable. The regression results suggest that the performance of Hague Conventions is indeed sensitive to post-Convention activities. Further analysis of the data indicates that post-Convention activities alone are unlikely to affect the performance of the Hague Conventions, and other factors may play a more significant role. These factors are on three levels,, the work product of the HCCH, system-oriented reasons such as states' legal, economic, cultural, political, institutional, social, historical, and religious context, and the international environment.The data analysis may also reveal the possible reverse effect of the overall performance on post-Convention activities. Namely, the HCCH would not start or expand post-Convention activities until a Convention received good market reactions. Still, for Conventions with good performance, apart from the reverse effect, the impact of post-Convention activities on the performance of the Conventions is hard to deny. So, the association between two variables may suggest mutual influence for Conventions with good performance, but this impact should not be exaggerated.To conclude, it seems that the approach of the Hague Conference to winding down Convention-making work while expanding post-Convention activities for successful Conventions can be justified. The DCL thesis finds a trend that when the number of Conventions within each decade decreases, the performance of Conventions made each decade increases. But this observation is not based on correlation or regression analysis. While the Hague Conference has been making fewer Conventions each decade, it has been expanding post-Convention activities for Conventions with good performance. This investment in these activities seems worthwhile based on the quantitative analysis of the DCL thesis. But the quality of the limited Convention-making work seems to remain an indispensable basis for post-Convention activities to exert their positive impact on the performance of the Hague Conventions. As such, the quality of Convention-making work should be the top priority of the HCCH.

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520 $a The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH hereafter in the thesis) is an intergovernmental organization with a mandate to harmonize the rules of private international law. Its work has two core focuses. The traditional core work is instrument-making. Since the 1950s, it has established 39 Conventions and a soft law instrument. Since the late 1970s, it has been engaging in various post-Convention activities. These activities have become another core work of this international organization and have been expanding so much that they have taken over half of the work time of the HCCH. An important question arises: should the HCCH continue these activities? The thesis focuses on the usefulness of post-Convention activities in improving the performance of the Hague Conventions, assessed in terms of ratifications. It answers the research question by exploring, through quantitative analysis, whether these activities are associated with the performance of the Conventions in terms of attracting ratifications.After quantifying the overall performance in attracting ratifications and the post-Convention activities for each Convention, the overall performance in attracting ratifications, as the dependent variable, is regressed against the post-Convention activities, as the independent variable. The regression results suggest that the performance of Hague Conventions is indeed sensitive to post-Convention activities. Further analysis of the data indicates that post-Convention activities alone are unlikely to affect the performance of the Hague Conventions, and other factors may play a more significant role. These factors are on three levels,, the work product of the HCCH, system-oriented reasons such as states' legal, economic, cultural, political, institutional, social, historical, and religious context, and the international environment.The data analysis may also reveal the possible reverse effect of the overall performance on post-Convention activities. Namely, the HCCH would not start or expand post-Convention activities until a Convention received good market reactions. Still, for Conventions with good performance, apart from the reverse effect, the impact of post-Convention activities on the performance of the Conventions is hard to deny. So, the association between two variables may suggest mutual influence for Conventions with good performance, but this impact should not be exaggerated.To conclude, it seems that the approach of the Hague Conference to winding down Convention-making work while expanding post-Convention activities for successful Conventions can be justified. The DCL thesis finds a trend that when the number of Conventions within each decade decreases, the performance of Conventions made each decade increases. But this observation is not based on correlation or regression analysis. While the Hague Conference has been making fewer Conventions each decade, it has been expanding post-Convention activities for Conventions with good performance. This investment in these activities seems worthwhile based on the quantitative analysis of the DCL thesis. But the quality of the limited Convention-making work seems to remain an indispensable basis for post-Convention activities to exert their positive impact on the performance of the Hague Conventions. As such, the quality of Convention-making work should be the top priority of the HCCH.
520 $a La Conference de La Haye de droit international prive (HCCH ci-apres dans la these) est une organisation intergouvernementale chargee d'harmoniser les regles de droit international prive. Son travail se concentre sur deux aspects principaux. Le travail central traditionnel consiste a elaborer des instruments. Depuis les annees 1950, elle a etabli 39 conventions et un instrument de soft law. Depuis la fin des annees 1970, elle s'engage dans diverses activites post-conventionnelles.Ces activites sont devenues un autre travail central de cette organisation internationale et ont tellement augmente qu'elles representent plus de la moitie du temps de travail de la HCCH. Une question importante se pose: la HCCH devrait-elle continuer ces activites? La these se concentre sur l'utilite des activites post-conventionnelles pour ameliorer la performance des Conventions de La Haye en attirant des ratifications. Elle repond a la question de recherche en explorant si ces activites sont liees a la performance des Conventions en termes de ratifications grace a une analyse quantitative.Apres avoir quantifie la performance globale en matiere de ratifications et les activites post-conventionnelles pour chaque Convention, la performance globale en matiere de ratifications, en tant que variable dependante, est regressee par rapport aux activites post-conventionnelles, en tant que variable independante. Les resultats de la regression montrent que la relation entre les deux variables la performance des Conventions de La Haye est sensible aux activites post-conventionnelles.L'analyse additionnelles des donnees suggere que que les activites post-conventionnelles ne sont pas susceptibles, en elles-meme, d'influencer la performance des Conventions de La Haye, et que d'autres facteurs ont peut-etre joue un role plus important dans la performance. Ces facteurs se situent a trois niveaux, le produit du travail de la Conference de La Haye, les raisons orientees vers le systeme telles que le contexte juridique, economique, culturel, politique, institutionnel, social, historique et religieux des Etats, et l'environnement international.L'analyse revele aussi un effet inverse possible de la performance globale sur les activites post-conventionnelles. Autrement dit, la Conference de La Haye ne demarrerait ou n'elargirait les activites post-conventionnelles qu'apres qu'une Convention obtienne de bonnes reactions sur le marche. Pour les Conventions ayant une bonne performance, outre l'effet inverse, l'impact des activites post-conventionnelles sur la performance des Conventions est difficile a nier. Ainsi, l'association entre les deux variables peut suggerer une influence mutuelle pour les Conventions ayant une bonne performance, mais cet impact ne devrait pas etre surestime.En conclusion, il semble que l'approche de la Conference de La Haye visant a reduire le travail d'elaboration de conventions tout en etendant les activites post-conventionnelles pour les Conventions reussies puisse etre justifiee. La these observe une tendance selon laquelle lorsque le nombre de Conventions au cours de chaque decennie diminue, la performance des Conventions elaborees chaque decennie augmente. Cependant, cette observation n'est pas basee sur une analyse de correlation ou de regression. Alors que la Conference de La Haye a elabore moins de Conventions chaque decennie, elle a etendu les activites postconventionnelles pour les Conventions ayant une bonne performance.
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