The Legitimation of International Organizations: Introducing a New Dataset

IF 1.8 1区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Studies Perspectives Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI:10.1093/isp/ekad008

Henning Schmidtke, Swantje Schirmer, Niklas Krösche, Tobias Lenz

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Abstract

This article introduces a new dataset on how international organizations (IOs) justify their authority. For a long time, IOs were believed to derive legitimacy from member-state consent and technocratic problem-solving capacities. Over recent decades, the growing politicization of IOs, political polarization within Western democracies, and power shifts in the international system have spurred IOs’ efforts to justify their right to rule, using a variety of legitimation practices. While research on the theory and practice of IO legitimation has grown considerably over the past decade, much of this work builds on case studies of prominent global and regional IOs. As a result, we lack data suitable for systematic comparative analyses across time, IOs, and world regions. The Legitimation Strategies of Regional Organizations (LegRO) dataset aims to narrow this gap, providing data on the standards, intensity, and modes of legitimation for twenty eight regional IOs from 1980 to 2019. These variables inform theoretical and policy-relevant research on contemporary global governance by providing the first systematic overview of IOs’ legitimation practices.

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国际组织的合法化：引入一个新的数据集

本文介绍了一个关于国际组织如何证明其权威的新数据集。长期以来，人们认为国际组织的合法性来自成员国的同意和技术官僚解决问题的能力。近几十年来，IOs的日益政治化、西方民主国家内部的政治两极分化以及国际体系中的权力转移，促使IOs努力通过各种合法化实践来证明自己的统治权利。虽然在过去十年中，对国际组织合法化的理论和实践的研究有了很大的发展，但其中大部分工作都是建立在对全球和区域主要国际组织的案例研究之上的。因此，我们缺乏适合进行跨时间、跨国际、跨世界区域系统比较分析的数据。区域组织合法化战略(LegRO)数据集旨在缩小这一差距，提供1980年至2019年28个区域国际组织的合法化标准、强度和模式的数据。这些变量为当代全球治理的理论和政策相关研究提供了信息，为国际货币基金组织的合法化实践提供了第一个系统的概述。

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International Studies Perspectives INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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