4259 - Transnational Processes in the World Society

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

This session brings together papers that make innovative new contributions to scholarship on transnational processes in the world society. Makaryan and Hooks press us to think about how diffusion mechanisms interact with one another. Dawson and Swiss take a novel approach to examining the relationship between foreign aid and policies related to the rule of law, finding aid increases odds of policy adoption but has a negligible effect on depth or quality of rule of law. In an important corrective, Reith et al discuss how new countries in the world system impact the way we think about and operationalize world related to world society. Taking up the issue of LGBT organization founding in the world society, Gonsalves finds that ties to ‘inside-region’ IGOs and INGOs have different effects on LGBT organization founding than ties to ‘outside-region’ IGOs and ‘outside-region’ INGOs. Ho uses a world society perspective to examine the global institutionalization of the statistics profession.

Sub Unit

• Transnational Processes

Session Organizer

• Joseph A. Harris, Boston University

Individual Presentations

• Interaction among Policy Diffusion Mechanisms: Citizenship and Minority Integration in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - Shushanik Makaryan, Pennsylvania State University; Gregory Hooks, McMaster University

• Entering World Society: A Research Note on Measurement and Statistical Modeling - Pamela M. Paxton, University of Texas; Nicholas E. Reith, University of Texas-Austin; Melanie M. Hughes, University of Pittsburgh; Wade M. Cole, University of Utah

• Foreign Aid and the Rule of Law: Norm Diffusion Followed by Increased Decoupling? - Andrew Dawson, York University; Liam Swiss, Memorial University

• Seeking Recognition: Founding Domestic LGBT Associations, 1969-2005 - Tara Marie Gonsalves, University of California-Berkeley

• The Global Institutionalization of a Scientific Profession: The Case of Statistics, 1800-2014 - Jing-Mao Ho

Discussant

• Alexander Kentikelenis, University of Oxford