Why do international organizations (IOs) look so different, yet so
similar? The possibilities are diverse. Some international
organizations have just a few member states, while others span the
globe. Some are targeted at a specific problem, while others have
policy portfolios as broad as national states. Some are run almost
entirely by their member states, while others have independent
courts, secretariats, and parliaments. Variation among
international organizations appears as wide as that among states.
This book explains the design and development of international
organization in the postwar period. It theorizes that the basic set
up of an IO responds to two forces: the functional impetus to
tackle problems that spill beyond national borders and a desire for
self-rule that can dampen cooperation where transnational community
is thin. The book reveals both the causal power of functionalist
pressures and the extent to which nationalism constrains the
willingness of member states to engage in incomplete contracting.
The implications of postfunctionalist theory for an IO's
membership, policy portfolio, contractual specificity, and
authoritative competences are tested using annual data for 76 IOs
for 1950-2010. Transformations in Governance is a major academic
book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to
accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative
politics, international relations, public policy, federalism,
environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of
authority from central states up to supranational institutions,
down to subnational governments, and side-ways to public-private
networks. It brings together work that significantly advances our
understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of
multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective,
containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high
quality by leading and emerging scholars. The series targets mainly
single-authored or co-authored work, but it is pluralistic in terms
of disciplinary specialization, research design, method, and
geographical scope. Case studies as well as comparative studies,
historical as well as contemporary studies, and studies with a
national, regional, or international focus are all central to its
aims. Authors use qualitative, quantitative, formal modeling, or
mixed methods. A trade mark of the books is that they combine
scholarly rigour with readable prose and an attractive production
style. The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the VU Amsterdam,
and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.
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