Robert J. Franzese
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199247752
- eISBN:
- 9780191596346
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199247757.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic Systems
Considers institutional complementarities at the macroeconomic level. It examines unemployment and inflation management in developed democracies, stressing the interactions of central‐bank ...
More
Considers institutional complementarities at the macroeconomic level. It examines unemployment and inflation management in developed democracies, stressing the interactions of central‐bank independence and wage/price‐bargaining coordination with each other and with the sectoral structure of bargaining in determining monetary—policymakers’ and wage/price‐bargainers’ incentives. The evidence from 21 developed democracies over 20 years of flexible exchange rates supports the argument that credible monetary conservatism and traded‐sector‐led (not public‐sector‐led) coordinated bargaining, complement in producing low unemployment and substitute in producing low inflation.Less
Considers institutional complementarities at the macroeconomic level. It examines unemployment and inflation management in developed democracies, stressing the interactions of central‐bank independence and wage/price‐bargaining coordination with each other and with the sectoral structure of bargaining in determining monetary—policymakers’ and wage/price‐bargainers’ incentives. The evidence from 21 developed democracies over 20 years of flexible exchange rates supports the argument that credible monetary conservatism and traded‐sector‐led (not public‐sector‐led) coordinated bargaining, complement in producing low unemployment and substitute in producing low inflation.
Thomas Gehring and Sebastian Oberthür
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262240574
- eISBN:
- 9780262286589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262240574.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
This chapter begins with the importance and effectiveness of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Science Plan’s institutional interaction and describes the ...
More
This chapter begins with the importance and effectiveness of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Science Plan’s institutional interaction and describes the interrelationship between “institutional interplay” and environmental governance. It shows how interplay occurs with institutional arrangements with the reference of social organization. Discussions on climate change regime, climate governance, and various conceptual and empirical researches that play a major role in understanding the “interplay” of institutions through several studies and illustrations are included. The role of important dimensions such as horizontal and vertical interactions among international institutions, their interrelationship with policy making, and the four principal strategies that have been engaged in in the exploration of institutional interaction cover the next part of the chapter. The chapter concludes that future research in the preceding topics will help in the advancement of our knowledge about institutional interaction, as well as environmental governance more generally.Less
This chapter begins with the importance and effectiveness of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) Science Plan’s institutional interaction and describes the interrelationship between “institutional interplay” and environmental governance. It shows how interplay occurs with institutional arrangements with the reference of social organization. Discussions on climate change regime, climate governance, and various conceptual and empirical researches that play a major role in understanding the “interplay” of institutions through several studies and illustrations are included. The role of important dimensions such as horizontal and vertical interactions among international institutions, their interrelationship with policy making, and the four principal strategies that have been engaged in in the exploration of institutional interaction cover the next part of the chapter. The chapter concludes that future research in the preceding topics will help in the advancement of our knowledge about institutional interaction, as well as environmental governance more generally.
Sebastian Oberthür and Thomas Gehring
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262015912
- eISBN:
- 9780262298346
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015912.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
This chapter discusses international institutions’ horizontal interplay studies conducted to better understand institutional interaction. Driving forces/mechanisms of institutional interplay are ...
More
This chapter discusses international institutions’ horizontal interplay studies conducted to better understand institutional interaction. Driving forces/mechanisms of institutional interplay are examined along with principal strategies used for studying institutional interaction by scholars. The collective action approach used for the study of international governance institutions is compared with the social practices approach, providing the perspective of both the studies on international governance institutions. Institutional interaction research implications for policymaking are discussed, with emphasis on reforming institutional interaction political management and international environmental governance. Institutional interaction research progress identifies interplay management and institutional complexes as priority areas of research.Less
This chapter discusses international institutions’ horizontal interplay studies conducted to better understand institutional interaction. Driving forces/mechanisms of institutional interplay are examined along with principal strategies used for studying institutional interaction by scholars. The collective action approach used for the study of international governance institutions is compared with the social practices approach, providing the perspective of both the studies on international governance institutions. Institutional interaction research implications for policymaking are discussed, with emphasis on reforming institutional interaction political management and international environmental governance. Institutional interaction research progress identifies interplay management and institutional complexes as priority areas of research.
Sebastian Oberthür and Olav Schram Stokke (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262015912
- eISBN:
- 9780262298346
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015912.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
Institutional interaction and complexity are crucial to environmental governance and are quickly becoming dominant themes in international relations and environmental politics literature. This book ...
More
Institutional interaction and complexity are crucial to environmental governance and are quickly becoming dominant themes in international relations and environmental politics literature. This book examines international institutional interplay and its consequences, focusing on two important issues: how states and other actors can manage institutional interaction to improve synergy and avoid disruption; and which forces drive the emergence and evolution of institutional complexes and sets of institutions that co-govern issue areas. The book, a product of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change research project, offers both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Chapters range from analytical overviews to case studies of institutional interaction, interplay management, and regime complexes in areas including climate change, fisheries management, and conservation of biodiversity. Contributors discuss such issues as the complicated management of fragmented multilateral institutions addressing climate change; the possible “chilling effect” on environmental standards from existing commitments; governance niches in Arctic resource protection; the relationships among treaties on conservation and use of plant genetic resources; causal factors in cross-case variation of regime prevalence; and the difficult relationship between the World Trade Organization and multilateral environmental agreements. The book offers a broad overview of research on interplay management and institutional complexes.Less
Institutional interaction and complexity are crucial to environmental governance and are quickly becoming dominant themes in international relations and environmental politics literature. This book examines international institutional interplay and its consequences, focusing on two important issues: how states and other actors can manage institutional interaction to improve synergy and avoid disruption; and which forces drive the emergence and evolution of institutional complexes and sets of institutions that co-govern issue areas. The book, a product of the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change research project, offers both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Chapters range from analytical overviews to case studies of institutional interaction, interplay management, and regime complexes in areas including climate change, fisheries management, and conservation of biodiversity. Contributors discuss such issues as the complicated management of fragmented multilateral institutions addressing climate change; the possible “chilling effect” on environmental standards from existing commitments; governance niches in Arctic resource protection; the relationships among treaties on conservation and use of plant genetic resources; causal factors in cross-case variation of regime prevalence; and the difficult relationship between the World Trade Organization and multilateral environmental agreements. The book offers a broad overview of research on interplay management and institutional complexes.
Sebastian Oberthür and Olav Schram Stokke
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262015912
- eISBN:
- 9780262298346
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015912.003.0012
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
Interplay management and institutional complexes, the two basic themes associated with institutional interaction research, have been analyzed in this book. This chapter presents the cases related to ...
More
Interplay management and institutional complexes, the two basic themes associated with institutional interaction research, have been analyzed in this book. This chapter presents the cases related to international environmental governance that will help to conduct future research in this field. There is a lack of centralization and cross-institutional coordination in efforts that are being made for increasing synergies, avoiding conflict, and maximizing global environmental governance through interplay management. Interplay management structures have failed to play the desired role in developing cross-institutional relations. The chapter focuses on the role of political will, which is more important and evident than institutional design in shaping and strengthening environmental policy integration in institutional complexes.Less
Interplay management and institutional complexes, the two basic themes associated with institutional interaction research, have been analyzed in this book. This chapter presents the cases related to international environmental governance that will help to conduct future research in this field. There is a lack of centralization and cross-institutional coordination in efforts that are being made for increasing synergies, avoiding conflict, and maximizing global environmental governance through interplay management. Interplay management structures have failed to play the desired role in developing cross-institutional relations. The chapter focuses on the role of political will, which is more important and evident than institutional design in shaping and strengthening environmental policy integration in institutional complexes.
Aruna Sathanapally
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199669301
- eISBN:
- 9780191744648
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199669301.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
Chapter 2 examines what role the legislature might play relative to the courts when open remedies are employed, and prepares the ground for the analysis of the interaction between courts and ...
More
Chapter 2 examines what role the legislature might play relative to the courts when open remedies are employed, and prepares the ground for the analysis of the interaction between courts and legislatures. It cogently and critically evaluates the development of, and debate over, the notion of ‘dialogue’ between courts and legislatures over fundamental rights, identifying two divergent understandings of dialogue. It presents two models that guide the analysis of declarations of incompatibility: specialisation (a process of adjustment of legislation between courts and legislatures, with each institution playing its own distinct, or specialised, role) and dual review (where judicial conclusions on human rights compliance are not treated as authoritative and binding, but rather provisional and open to disagreement). This chapter concludes by identifying a notable gap in the existing dialogue scholarship, namely, a tendency to focus on legislative output rather than interrogate the role and processes of the legislature itself.Less
Chapter 2 examines what role the legislature might play relative to the courts when open remedies are employed, and prepares the ground for the analysis of the interaction between courts and legislatures. It cogently and critically evaluates the development of, and debate over, the notion of ‘dialogue’ between courts and legislatures over fundamental rights, identifying two divergent understandings of dialogue. It presents two models that guide the analysis of declarations of incompatibility: specialisation (a process of adjustment of legislation between courts and legislatures, with each institution playing its own distinct, or specialised, role) and dual review (where judicial conclusions on human rights compliance are not treated as authoritative and binding, but rather provisional and open to disagreement). This chapter concludes by identifying a notable gap in the existing dialogue scholarship, namely, a tendency to focus on legislative output rather than interrogate the role and processes of the legislature itself.
Mark Axelrod
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262015912
- eISBN:
- 9780262298346
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015912.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Environmental Politics
This chapter focuses on the bias of interplay management techniques in international law toward status quo preservation and international change. Hypothesis about conflict with international trade ...
More
This chapter focuses on the bias of interplay management techniques in international law toward status quo preservation and international change. Hypothesis about conflict with international trade rules resulting in the chilling of environmental treaties is examined, along with the use of saving clauses to determine whether certain situations will yield a chilling effect or not. Analysis of the data set reveals acknowledgement of some form of international law by multilateral agreements, which shows that every environmental treaty is not an independent event. Institutional interaction hierarchies and their relationship with the chilling effect are also explored.Less
This chapter focuses on the bias of interplay management techniques in international law toward status quo preservation and international change. Hypothesis about conflict with international trade rules resulting in the chilling of environmental treaties is examined, along with the use of saving clauses to determine whether certain situations will yield a chilling effect or not. Analysis of the data set reveals acknowledgement of some form of international law by multilateral agreements, which shows that every environmental treaty is not an independent event. Institutional interaction hierarchies and their relationship with the chilling effect are also explored.
Sikina Jinnah
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262028042
- eISBN:
- 9780262325356
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028042.003.0008
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
In addition to summarizing findings, this chapter reflects on the theoretical implications of this study for global environmental politics and international relations more broadly. Importantly this ...
More
In addition to summarizing findings, this chapter reflects on the theoretical implications of this study for global environmental politics and international relations more broadly. Importantly this chapter argues that path dependence can help to explain why secretariat influence matters, even when such influence is modest or wanes over time. It argues that when secretariat influence produces entrenched institutions that yield benefits for key decision makers, the results of secretariat influence can establish a path dependent dynamic that enhances institutional interactions and shapes decision making long after secretariat influence has waned. This chapter further discusses the broader implications of secretiarat influence, arguing that secretariats can strengthen global governance regimes, enhancing them through, for example, developing country capacity-building, streamlining complex governace tasks, and helping states capitalize on opportunities for inter-regime coordination. This chapter problemitizes secretariat influence, exploring the appropriate role of secretariats and their role within contemporary overlap management.Less
In addition to summarizing findings, this chapter reflects on the theoretical implications of this study for global environmental politics and international relations more broadly. Importantly this chapter argues that path dependence can help to explain why secretariat influence matters, even when such influence is modest or wanes over time. It argues that when secretariat influence produces entrenched institutions that yield benefits for key decision makers, the results of secretariat influence can establish a path dependent dynamic that enhances institutional interactions and shapes decision making long after secretariat influence has waned. This chapter further discusses the broader implications of secretiarat influence, arguing that secretariats can strengthen global governance regimes, enhancing them through, for example, developing country capacity-building, streamlining complex governace tasks, and helping states capitalize on opportunities for inter-regime coordination. This chapter problemitizes secretariat influence, exploring the appropriate role of secretariats and their role within contemporary overlap management.
Sikina Jinnah
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780262028042
- eISBN:
- 9780262325356
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262028042.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
Post-Treaty Politics argues that secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—matter in world politics. Centrally, this book argues that in drawing from their unique networks and ...
More
Post-Treaty Politics argues that secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—matter in world politics. Centrally, this book argues that in drawing from their unique networks and knowledge, secretariats emerge not simply as state functionaries or appendages, but as actors in their own right. The book examines secretariat influence through the lens of overlap management, showing that in the messy world of overlapping treaty regimes, secretariats are well-positioned, skilled, and willing to work through the challenges of overlap management. Although secretariats may not have the coercive power to dictate their will against state preferences, the book demonstrates how they influence political outcomes in ways that reflect constitutive forms of power. For example, secretariats change power relations between states by (re)defining governance architectures/institutions, altering relationships by redistributing capabilities, and shaping shared norms and ideas. The book also explains the factors that condition secretariat influence, arguing when secretariat functions enjoy low substitutability and state preferences are weakly solidified, secretariats can influence politics in these ways. Post-Treaty Politics thus uncovers not only how and when secretariats exert influence, but also why such influence matters in world politicsLess
Post-Treaty Politics argues that secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—matter in world politics. Centrally, this book argues that in drawing from their unique networks and knowledge, secretariats emerge not simply as state functionaries or appendages, but as actors in their own right. The book examines secretariat influence through the lens of overlap management, showing that in the messy world of overlapping treaty regimes, secretariats are well-positioned, skilled, and willing to work through the challenges of overlap management. Although secretariats may not have the coercive power to dictate their will against state preferences, the book demonstrates how they influence political outcomes in ways that reflect constitutive forms of power. For example, secretariats change power relations between states by (re)defining governance architectures/institutions, altering relationships by redistributing capabilities, and shaping shared norms and ideas. The book also explains the factors that condition secretariat influence, arguing when secretariat functions enjoy low substitutability and state preferences are weakly solidified, secretariats can influence politics in these ways. Post-Treaty Politics thus uncovers not only how and when secretariats exert influence, but also why such influence matters in world politics