Measuring International Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume III
Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, Tobias Lenz, Jeanine Bezuijen, Besir Ceka, and Svet Derderyan
Abstract
This book sets out a measure of authority for seventy-six major international organizations (IOs) from 1950 to 2010 in an effort to provide systematic comparative information on international governance. On the premise that transparency is key in the production of data, the authors chart a path in laying out the assumptions that underpin the measure. Successive chapters detail the authors’ theoretical, conceptual, and coding decisions. In order to assess their authority, the authors model the composition of IO bodies, their roles in decision making, the bindingness of IO decisions, and the mec ... More
This book sets out a measure of authority for seventy-six major international organizations (IOs) from 1950 to 2010 in an effort to provide systematic comparative information on international governance. On the premise that transparency is key in the production of data, the authors chart a path in laying out the assumptions that underpin the measure. Successive chapters detail the authors’ theoretical, conceptual, and coding decisions. In order to assess their authority, the authors model the composition of IO bodies, their roles in decision making, the bindingness of IO decisions, and the mechanisms through which they seek to settle disputes. Profiles of regional, cross-regional, and global IOs explain how they are composed and how they make decisions. A distinctive feature of the measure is that it breaks down the concept of international authority into discrete dimensions. The Measure of International Authority (MIA) is built up from coherent ingredients—the composition and role of individual IO bodies at each stage in policy making, constitutional reform, the budget, financial compliance, membership accession, and the suspension of members. These observations can be assembled—like Lego blocks—in diverse ways for diverse purposes. This produces a flexible tool for investigating international governance and testing theory.
Keywords:
measurement,
transparency,
international organization,
authority,
international governance
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198724490 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2017 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198724490.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Liesbet Hooghe, author
W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gary Marks, author
Burton Craige Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tobias Lenz, author
Assistant Professor of Global Governance and Comparative Regionalism, Georg-August-University Goettingen
Jeanine Bezuijen, author
Statistician, Scottish Government
Besir Ceka, author
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Davidson College.
Svet Derderyan, author
Lecturer in Political Science at Colorado University Boulder
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