The Legitimation of International Organizations: Introducing a New Dataset
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In: International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 25, No. 1, ekad008, 01.02.2024, p. 86-110.
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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 -