Discovering Cooperation: A Contractual Approach to Institutional Change in Regional International Organizations
| Autor: | Besir Ceka, Brian Burgoon, Gary Marks, Tobias Lenz |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Political Science and Public Administration, Amsterdam Global Change Institute, Multi-layered governance in EUrope and beyond (MLG) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Contracting 050601 international relations institutional cooperation State (polity) 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration 050207 economics Industrial organization media_common Institutional change 050208 finance Delegation business.industry Perspective (graphical) Politics 05 social sciences Regional international organization Public relations 0506 political science Perceptual ambiguity regional international organizations business International cooperation Organizational flexibility |
| Zdroj: | Marks, G W, Lenz, T, Ceka, B & Burgoon, B 2014, Discovering Cooperation: A Contractual Approach to Institutional Change in Regional International Organizations . in EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2014/65, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies . EUI, Florence . Marks, G, Lenz, T, Ceka, B & Burgoon, B 2014 ' Discovering cooperation : a contractual approach to institutional change in regional international organizations ' EUI Working Paper RSCAS, no. 65, vol. 2014, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole . < http://hdl.handle.net/1814/31551 > EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2014/65, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies |
| Popis: | This paper offers a fresh perspective on institutional change drawing on recent advances in the economic theory of contracting. Contractual incompleteness enhances organizational flexibility, but only at the cost of perceptual ambiguity. We hypothesize that the willingness to engage in a highly incomplete contract depends on shared understandings which reduce the cost of perceptual ambiguity. These claims are evaluated using a new dataset on delegation of state authority to non-state actors in 35 regional international organizations from 1950 to 2010. We are able to confirm across a wide range of models and specifications that reform is guided by contractual incompleteness and that contractual incompleteness is rooted in shared historical experience. |
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