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The Independence of International Organizations

Haftel, Yoram Z.; Thompson, Alexander - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 50 (2006) 2, pp. 253-275

Despite its widespread use in studies of domestic political institutions, the concept of â€œindependenceâ€ has not been … systematically applied to the study of international institutions. Most arguments regarding the ability of international … organizations (IOs) to promote cooperation and mitigate conflict rely on the implicit assumption that such institutions possess some …

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Introducing a statutory minimum wage in middle and low income countries

Margolis, David N. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10

Motivations for introducing a statutory minimum wage in developing countries include reducing poverty, advancing social justice, and accelerating growth. Attaining these goals depends on the national context and policy choices. Institutional capacity tends to be limited, so institutional...

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Institutional Flexibility in the Design of Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Marcoux, Christopher - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 26 (2009) 2, pp. 209-228

Current research on international treaties suggests that flexibility provisions can facilitate the diplomatic resolution of international environmental problems.This article advances understanding of this process by describing a typology of flexibility mechanisms found in multilateral...

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Environmental Liability and Regulation: An Empirical Study of the French Institutional Division of Labour

Bentata, Pierre Nicolas Jean; Barkat, Karim - Centre d'Études et de Recherche en Gestion (CERGAM), … - 2012

Reasons for the joint use of ex ante regulation and ex post liability to cope with environmental accidents have been a longstanding issue in law and economics literature. This article, which includes the first empirical study of the French environmental legal system, analyzes courts’ decisions...

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Environmental Regulation and Civil Liability Under Causal Uncertainty: An Empirical Study of the French Legal System

Bentata, Pierre Nicolas Jean; Barkat, Karim - Centre d'Études et de Recherche en Gestion (CERGAM), … - 2012

The key question in this paper is to determine whether regulation and regulators information can help solving causal uncertainty problems in liability. A widely held view among Law & Economics scholars is that civil liability alone is not well-suited to cope with environmental accidents,...

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The contextualist turn and schematics of institutional fit: Theory and a case study from Southern India

Lejano, Raul; Shankar, Savita - In: Policy Sciences 46 (2013) 1, pp. 83-102

policy design to fit a situation. We conceptualize institutions as phenomena that are constituted by a constant dialectic …

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The United Nations Global Compact: An Institutionalist Perspective

Berliner, Daniel; Prakash, Aseem - In: Journal of Business Ethics 122 (2014) 2, pp. 217-223

The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) has generated a lively debate among academics, activists, and policy practitioners. Given the scope and ambition of this program, and the prestige of the United Nations associated with it, its supporters believe it will fundamentally reshape how...

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Looking beyond States: Openings for international bureaucrats to enter the institutional design process

Johnson, Tana - In: The Review of International Organizations 8 (2013) 4, pp. 499-519

Surprisingly little research investigates a stark reality: the vast majority of today’s international intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) were crafted not by states alone, but with participation by international bureaucrats working in pre-existing IGOs. What explains this phenomenon?...

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Organization without delegation: Informal intergovernmental organizations (IIGOs) and the spectrum of intergovernmental arrangements

Vabulas, Felicity; Snidal, Duncan - In: The Review of International Organizations 8 (2013) 2, pp. 193-220

intergovernmental arrangements to show the wide variation in the formalization of international institutions and theorize when states …

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The design of post-Kyoto climate schemes: selected questions in analytical perspective

Guesnerie, Roger - HAL - 2006

The paper starts from a proposition of institutional design for climate policies made previously by David Bradford and labelled GPGP (Global Public good Purchase). The scheme is compared with other possible post- Kyoto schemes that are, or not, "Kyoto compatible". The comparison puts the...

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