Institutional pioneers in world politics: regional institution building and the influence of the European Union

Titel:	Institutional pioneers in world politics: regional institution building and the influence of the European Union
Verfasser:	Lenz, Tobias ; Burilkov, Alexandr
Veröffentlicht:	Mannheim : SSOAR, 2017
Umfang:	Online-Ressource
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
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Bemerkung:	Veröffentlichungsversion begutachtet (peer reviewed) In: European Journal of International Relations ; 23 (2017) 3 ; 654-680
Zusammenfassung:	Abstract: What drives processes of institution building within regional international organizations? We challenge those established theories of regionalism, and of institutionalized cooperation more broadly, that treat different organizations as independent phenomena whose evolution is conditioned primarily by internal causal factors. Developing the basic premise of ‘diffusion theory’ - meaning that decision-making is interdependent across organizations - we argue that institutional pioneers, and specifically the European Union, shape regional institution-building processes in a number of discernible ways. We then hypothesize two pathways - active and passive - of European Union influence, and stipulate an endogenous capacity for institutional change as a key scope condition for their operation. Drawing on a new and original data set on the institutional design of 34 regional international organizations in the period from 1950 to 2010, the article finds that: (1) both the intensity of a regi

Bemerkung:

Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: European Journal of International Relations ; 23 (2017) 3 ; 654-680

Zusammenfassung:

Abstract: What drives processes of institution building within regional international organizations? We challenge those established theories of regionalism, and of institutionalized cooperation more broadly, that treat different organizations as independent phenomena whose evolution is conditioned primarily by internal causal factors. Developing the basic premise of ‘diffusion theory’ - meaning that decision-making is interdependent across organizations - we argue that institutional pioneers, and specifically the European Union, shape regional institution-building processes in a number of discernible ways. We then hypothesize two pathways - active and passive - of European Union influence, and stipulate an endogenous capacity for institutional change as a key scope condition for their operation. Drawing on a new and original data set on the institutional design of 34 regional international organizations in the period from 1950 to 2010, the article finds that: (1) both the intensity of a regi

Institutional pioneers in world politics: regional institution building and the influence of the European Union

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