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Auf der UN-Klimakonferenz in Cancun im Dezember 2010 haben sich die teilnehmenden Staaten auf ein Maßnahmenpaket geeinigt, das auch einen globalen Grünen Klimafonds enthält. Der Design-Prozess dieses Fonds steht jetzt auf der politischen Agenda. Eine verbesserte Koordinierung der...
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Der Aufsatz zeigt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele und quantitativer Analysen, dass internationale Organisationen – mehr als alle anderen staatlichen Institutionen – ein extremes Kontrolldefizit aufweisen. Umfragen belegen, dass sie andere Interessen als die Bürger haben. Sie können diese...
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international governance. Many organizations, prominently among them the World Trade Organization (WTO), have come under …
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This article develops a theoretical framework to analyze the rise and spread of global public policy. After an introduction to the background of sociological institutionalism, it first elaborates on the role and functions of international organizations, identifying instruments by which these can...
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World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
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We investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the period of 1992 to...
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elaborates the need for a »World Environment and Development Organization« within the United Nations system, and outlines the …
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The interest in global environmental problems has - in particular in the wake of the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992 - increased substantially, in both the theoretical and the practical sense. This may be bound up with the growing pressure stemming from still unsolved...
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. for global environmental governance with the help of a »World Environment and Development Organization» within the United …
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