ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the record of rising member compliance with G7/8 summit commitments from 1975 to 2008, examines the record by year, by country and by issue area. It explores the results of the existing efforts to explain compliance, from von Furstenberg and Daniels, through Kokotsis, to Kirton. The chapter constructs a multi-level model of agency, institutional and structural factors, and tests it against the G7/8s member's compliance with 42 finance and development commitments from 1996 to 2006. It identifies important paths for future research and policy change. G8 finance ministers can recognize their role as starters and closers, and leave the middle innings to the leaders themselves. To account for high US and Canadian compliance in the finance field, Kokotsis examines one international institutional cause the strong multilateral organizations (MOs) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank and several domestic-level factors. Those factors include strong and G7-focused ministers of finance.
