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The Rational Design of International Institutions (International Organization)

By Charles Lipson , Barbara Koremenos , Duncan Snidal

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0521533589, 9780521533584, 9780511165894
LCC
JZ4850 .R38 2004
Open Library ID
OL21170965M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4128684 bytes)
Pages
364\365
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

International institutions vary widely in terms of key institutional features such as membership, scope, and flexibility. Barbara Koremenos, Charles Lipson, and Duncan Snidal argue that this is so because international actors are goal-seeking agents who make specific institutional design choices to solve the particular cooperation problems they face in different issue-areas. Using a Rational Design approach, they explore five important features of institutions--membership, scope, centralization, control, and flexibility--and explain their variation in terms of four independent variables that characterize different cooperation problems: distribution, number of actors, enforcement, and uncertainty. The contributors to the volume then evaluate a set of conjectures in specific issue areas. (This book is Volume 55, part 4 of International Organization.)

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