Collective Agency of Horizontal Regulatory Organizations in Global Environmental and Financial Market Governance (GLOREG)

Period

2020-2023

Funding

  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / German Research Foundation

Team

  • PIs: Prof. Dr. Thomas Gehring, Prof. Dr. Thomas Rixen

  • Simon Linder

Summary

The project elaborates theoretically and investigates empirically whether and how horizontal regulatory organizations in two important areas of global politics – environmental protection and financial market regulation – gain collective agency along the dimensions of decision-making authority and autonomy. We theorize mechanisms of autonomy-generation and authority acquisition and subject them to an empirical test in a mixed-methods design. Both policy fields are characterized by the presence of numerous specialized, international or transnational governance institutions, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and its Paris Agreement, the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision (BCBS), and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).

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Research Output

  • Coming Soon

 

THe Two Faces of International ORganizations

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Period

2016-2020

Funding

  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / German Research Foundation

  • Stanford University

Summary

How do international organizations organize new political knowledge in general, and how do they produce new meanings in international human rights policies? To answer this question, this research project analyzes two major streams: the internal diversity of international governmental organizations (IGOs) and the discursive production of international policies aiming to fight violence against women (VAW). First, this project finds a remarkable increase in formal internal institutional diversity within IGOs that relate, amongst others, to their capacities to produce new political knowledge. Second, the project finds how these diverse knowledge production capacities generate different frames on violence against women, which produces new meanings on women’s and human rights in international human rights policies. This investigation uses a mixed-method research design to combine quantitative analysis of about 100 international governmental organizations and qualitative frame analysis of discursive policy production processes by various organizational actors within the Council of Europe. The research project will be completed in 2020.

Research Output

  • Conference & Workshop presentations: ISA, ECPR, DVPW, Kolleg-Forschergruppe FU Berlin, Research Workshops Hebrew University & Stanford University

  • Ph.D. thesis

  • Journal articles (work in progress)

  • Three original datasets on IO design, international human rights regimes, and discourse frames within IOs