The rise of international parliaments : strategic legitimation in international organizations /
Schimmelfennig, Frank,1963-author.
Winzen, Thomas,author.
Lenz, Tobias,1981-author.
Rocabert, Jofre,author.
Crasnic, Loriana,author.
Gherasimov, Cristina,author.
Lipps, Jana,author.
Mumford, Densua,1985-author.
"International parliamentary institutions (IPIs) are on the rise. Around the world, international organizations have increasingly established or affiliated parliamentary assemblies. At the same time, IPIs have generally remained powerless institutions with at best a consultative role in the decision-making process of international organizations. This book pursues the question why the member states of international organizations create IPIs but do not vest them with relevant institutional powers. It argues that neither the functional benefits of delegation nor the internalization of democratic norms provide convincing answers to this question. Rather, IPIs are an instrument of strategic legitimation. By establishing IPIs that mimic a highly esteemed domestic democratic institution, governments seek to ensure that audiences at home and in the wider international environment recognize their IOs as democratically legitimate. At the same time, they seek to avoid being effectively constrained by IPIs in international governance. In a statistical analysis covering the world's most relevant international organizations and a series of case studies from diverse world regions, we find two major varieties of international parliamentarization. IOs with general purpose and high authority create and empower IPIs to legitimate their region-building projects domestically. Alternatively, IOs are induced to create parliamentary bodies by international diffusion"--
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index.
-- Part I -- 1. Introduction -- 2. International Parliamentary Institutions -- 3. Strategic Democratic Legitimation: Why International Organizations Establish Parliamentary Institutions -- 4.The Emergence of International Parliamentary Institutions: A Quantitative Analysis -- Part II -- 5. Introduction to the Case Studies -- 6. The European Union -- 7. The Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe -- 8. The Commonwealth of Independent States and the Eurasian Economic Union -- 9. The Andean Community -- 10. Mercosur -- 11. The North American Free-Trade Agreement -- 12. The Economic Community of West African States -- 13. The East African Community -- 14. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations -- 15.The Pacific Islands Forum -- 16. Comparative Case Study Analysis: Varieties of International Parliamentarization -- 17. The Rise of International Parliaments: Conclusions.
"International parliamentary institutions (IPIs) are on the rise. Around the world, international organizations have increasingly established or affiliated parliamentary assemblies. At the same time, IPIs have generally remained powerless institutions with at best a consultative role in the decision-making process of international organizations. This book pursues the question why the member states of international organizations create IPIs but do not vest them with relevant institutional powers. It argues that neither the functional benefits of delegation nor the internalization of democratic norms provide convincing answers to this question. Rather, IPIs are an instrument of strategic legitimation. By establishing IPIs that mimic a highly esteemed domestic democratic institution, governments seek to ensure that audiences at home and in the wider international environment recognize their IOs as democratically legitimate. At the same time, they seek to avoid being effectively constrained by IPIs in international governance. In a statistical analysis covering the world's most relevant international organizations and a series of case studies from diverse world regions, we find two major varieties of international parliamentarization. IOs with general purpose and high authority create and empower IPIs to legitimate their region-building projects domestically. Alternatively, IOs are induced to create parliamentary bodies by international diffusion"--
International agencies.
International agencies