The Opening Up of International Organizations :Transnational Access in Global Governance

Publication subTitle :Transnational Access in Global Governance

Author: Jonas Tallberg; Thomas Sommerer; Theresa Squatrito  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781107440968

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107042230

Subject: D81 international relations

Keyword: 外交、国际关系

Language: ENG

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The Opening Up of International Organizations

Description

Once the exclusive preserve of member states, international organizations have become increasingly open in recent decades. Now virtually all international organizations at some level involve NGOs, business actors and scientific experts in policy-making. This book offers the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of this development. Combining statistical analysis and in-depth case studies, it maps and explains the openness of international organizations across issue areas, policy functions and world regions from 1950 to 2010. Addressing the question of where, how and why international organizations offer transnational actors access to global policy-making, this book has implications for critical issues in world politics. When do states share authority with private actors? What drives the design of international organizations? How do activists and businesses influence global politics? Is civil society involvement a solution to democratic deficits in global governance?

Chapter

The implications: institutional design, transnational influence, and global democracy

The plan of the book

2 Explaining transnational access to international organizations: theories and hypotheses

Conceptualizing transnational access

Functional demand: securing benefits of TNA participation

The logic of functional demand

Functional benefits of TNA access

Hypotheses and observable implications

Strategic legitimation: taming opposition to protect IO authority

The logic of strategic legitimation

Challenges of IO authority

Hypotheses and observable implications

Norm socialization: adopting standards of participatory democracy

The logic of norm socialization

Sources of a global participatory norm

Hypotheses and observable implications

Factors conditioning the expansion of TNA access

Conclusion

3 Patterns of formal TNA access in global governance

The dataset: formal access rules in 50 international organizations

The design of the dataset

Selection of international organizations and organizational bodies

Data collection and processing

Measuring formal TNA access

Depth of access

Range of access

Secondary dimensions: permanence and codification

A composite index of TNA access

Mapping TNA access to international organizations

TNA access over time

TNA access across issue areas, policy functions, and world regions

Dimensions of TNA access

Congruence analysis: assessing theoretical expectations of empirical patterns

Functional demand

Strategic legitimation

Norm socialization

Conclusion

4 Explaining formal TNA access to international organizations: a multivariate analysis

Operationalization of explanatory variables

Functional demand

Strategic legitimation

Norm socialization

Conditioning factors

Diffusion effects

An explanatory analysis of formal TNA access

Model specification

Functional demand: noncompliance incentives and local implementation matter

Strategic legitimation: access in response to contentiousness and anticipated protests

Norm socialization: access through upload of domestic democratic standards

Conditioning factors: sovereignty costs as limits to the expansion of access

Diffusion effects: openness of reference groups influences access

Conclusion

5 TNA access across issue areas: the OSCE and the Commonwealth

The Organization for Security and Co-­operation in Europe

TNA access to the OSCE: an overview

Tracing the evolution of TNA access

The evolution of TNA access to human rights

The evolution of TNA access to security

Explaining TNA access to the OSCE

The Commonwealth of Nations

TNA access to the Commonwealth: an overview

Tracing the historical evolution of TNA access

TNA access to finance policy through the Finance Ministers Meetings

TNA access to health policy through the Health Ministers Meetings

Explaining TNA access to the Commonwealth

Conclusion

6 TNA access across the policy process: the ADB and the IWC

The Asian Development Bank

TNA access to the ADB: an overview

Tracing the historical evolution of TNA access

The evolution of TNA access to policy implementation

The evolution of TNA access to policy formulation

The evolution of TNA access to decision-making

The evolution of TNA access to monitoring and enforcement

Explaining TNA access to the ADB

The International Whaling Commission

TNA access to the IWC: an overview

Tracing the evolution of TNA access

The evolution of TNA access to policy formulation

The evolution of TNA access to decision­making

The evolution of TNA access to monitoring and enforcement

Explaining TNA access to the IWC

Conclusion

7 Conclusion

The transnational design of international organizations

Determinants of TNA access: a summary of the findings

The opening up of international organizations, 1950–2010

Implications for global governance

The institutional design of international organizations

Transnational activism and influence

Civil society and global democracy

Appendix

References

Interviews

Index

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