TY - JOUR

T1 - The Legitimation of International Organizations

T2 - Introducing a New Dataset

AU - Schmidtke, Henning

AU - Krösche, Niklas

AU - Schirmer, Swantje

AU - Lenz, Tobias

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) (2023). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association.

PY - 2024/2/1

Y1 - 2024/2/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Politics

KW - conjunto de datos

KW - cooperación regional

KW - cooperation regionale

KW - dataset

KW - discours

KW - discourse

KW - discurso

KW - international organizations

KW - jeu de donnees

KW - justificación

KW - justification

KW - legitimación

KW - legitimation

KW - organisations internationales

KW - organizaciones internacionales

KW - pratique

KW - Práctica

KW - regional cooperation

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/73aedfe0-61e8-3179-abc4-1ecf0253d984/

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85184615729&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1093/isp/ekad008

DO - 10.1093/isp/ekad008

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 25

SP - 86

EP - 110

JO - International Studies Perspectives

JF - International Studies Perspectives

SN - 1528-3577

IS - 1

M1 - ekad008

ER -