Effectiveness of Global Governance Institutions

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Extant research on global governance institutions tends to focus on the emergence, development, and institutional design of institutions, such as international regimes, intergovernmental organizations, and new institutional forms that bring together public and private actors. By contrast, fundamental questions about the effectiveness of global governance institutions and the conditions under which they perform well have remained underexplored. Recent work in international relations has started to shift the focus towards these questions. The papers on this panel build on these studies and earlier work and focus on the effectiveness of different types of global governance institutions. Using new data and innovative methods, they map the performance of global governance institutions in a broad range of issue areas and provide innovative explanations for why some institutions perform better than others. Together, they make important theoretical and empirical contributions to the study of global governance and open up avenues for future research.

Sub Unit

• Division 17: International Collaboration

Individual Presentations

• Borders as International Institutions - Gino Pauselli, University of Pennsylvania; Beth A. Simmons, University of Pennsylvania

• Making International Organizations Accountable - Ranjit Lall, London School of Economics

• Decision-Making in International Organizations - Thomas Sommerer, University of Potsdam; Jonas Tallberg, Stockholm University

• Measuring the Effectiveness of Transnational Governance - Oliver Westerwinter, University of St. Gallen

Chair

• Jon C. W. Pevehouse University of Wisconsin, Madison

Discussants

• Lisa L. Martin University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Alexander Thompson Ohio State University