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Replication Data for: The Social Bases of Political Parties: A New Measure and Survey
No full textThis dataset focuses on the social structuration of political parties. It develops a simple and transparent measure for assessing the relative weight of socio-structural and behavioral factors for party composition. We illustrate this measure in comparison of political parties in 30 European countries since 1975. (2021-12-12
Replication Data for: The Social Bases of Political Parties: A New Measure and Survey
No full textThis dataset focuses on the social structuration of political parties. It develops a simple and transparent measure for assessing the relative weight of socio-structural and behavioral factors for party composition. We illustrate this measure in comparison of political parties in 30 European countries since 1975
A theory of international organization
No full textWhy do international organizations (IOs) look so different, yet so similar? The possibilities are diverse. Some international organizations have just a few member states, while others span the globe. Some are targeted at a specific problem, while others have policy portfolios as broad as national states. Some are run almost entirely by their member states, while others have independent courts, secretariats, and parliaments. Variation among international organizations appears as wide as that among states. This book explains the design and development of international organization in the postwar period. It theorizes that the basic set up of an IO responds to two forces: the functional impetus to tackle problems that spill beyond national borders and a desire for self-rule that can dampen cooperation where transnational community is thin. The book reveals both the causal power of functionalist pressures and the extent to which nationalism constrains the willingness of member states to engage in incomplete contracting. The implications of postfunctionalist theory for an IO's membership, policy portfolio, contractual specificity, and authoritative competences are tested using annual data for 76 IOs for 1950-2010. Transformations in Governance is a major academic book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, federalism, environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central states up to supranational institutions, down to subnational governments, and side-ways to public-private networks. It brings together work that significantly advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars. The series targets mainly single-authored or co-authored work, but it is pluralistic in terms of disciplinary specialization, research design, method, and geographical scope. Case studies as well as comparative studies, historical as well as contemporary studies, and studies with a national, regional, or international focus are all central to its aims. Authors use qualitative, quantitative, formal modeling, or mixed methods. A trade mark of the books is that they combine scholarly rigour with readable prose and an attractive production style.1: Introduction
2: Philosophical Foundations of a Postfunctionalist Theory of International Governance
3: Measuring International Authority
4: The Basic Set-Up: How International Organizations Vary
5: Why do some IOs expand their policy portfolio?
6: The Resistible Rise of International Authority
7: Why States Pool Authority
8: Five Theses on International Governanc
Discovering Cooperation: A Contractual Approach to Institutional Change in Regional International Organizations
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Discovering Cooperation: A Contractual Approach to Institutional Change in Regional International Organizations
No full textPatterns of International Organization: Task Specific vs. General Purpose
No full textThis paper surveys fundamental contrasts in the articulation of international authority using a new dataset, constructed by the authors, estimating the composition and decision-making rules of 72 international organizations from 1950 to 2010. We theorize that two modes of governance general purpose and task specific represent distinctive ways of organizing political life, and this has stark implications for the exercise of international authority. In the spirit of this special issue, we engage theoretical perspectives that bridge rational and constructivist approaches to examine how general purpose and task specific international organizations exhibit systematic differences in their institutional configuration, delegation, pooling, and development.European Research Council [249543
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