Lenz, Tobias

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","654"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","3"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","European Journal of International Relations"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","680"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","23"],["dc.contributor.author","Lenz, Tobias"],["dc.contributor.author","Burilkov, Alexandr"],["dc.date.accessioned","2019-07-09T11:44:49Z"],["dc.date.available","2019-07-09T11:44:49Z"],["dc.date.issued","2017"],["dc.description.abstract","What drives processes of institution building within regional international organizations? We challenge those established theories of regionalism, and of institutionalized cooperation more broadly, that treat different organizations as independent phenomena whose evolution is conditioned primarily by internal causal factors. Developing the basic premise of ‘diffusion theory’ — meaning that decision-making is interdependent across organizations — we argue that institutional pioneers, and specifically the European Union, shape regional institution-building processes in a number of discernible ways. We then hypothesize two pathways — active and passive — of European Union influence, and stipulate an endogenous capacity for institutional change as a key scope condition for their operation. Drawing on a new and original data set on the institutional design of 34 regional international organizations in the period from 1950 to 2010, the article finds that: (1) both the intensity of a regional international organization’s structured interaction with the European Union (active influence) and the European Union’s own level of delegation (passive influence) are associated with higher levels of delegation within other regional international organizations; (2) passive European Union influence exerts a larger overall substantive effect than active European Union influence does; and (3) these effects are strongest among those regional international organizations that are based on founding contracts containing open-ended commitments. These findings indicate that the creation and subsequent institutional evolution of the European Union has made a difference to the evolution of institutions in regional international organizations elsewhere, thereby suggesting that existing theories of regionalism are insufficiently able to account for processes of institution building in such contexts."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1177/1354066116674261"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/14913"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/59102"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.relation","info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/249543/EU//MLG"],["dc.relation.issn","1460-3713"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Institut für Politikwissenschaft"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Arbeitsbereich Globales Regieren & Komparative Regionalismusforschung"],["dc.rights","Goescholar"],["dc.rights.uri","https://goescholar.uni-goettingen.de/licenses"],["dc.subject.ddc","300"],["dc.title","Institutional pioneers in world politics: Regional institution building and the influence of the European Union"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1094"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","4"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","International Studies Quarterly"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1107"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","63"],["dc.contributor.author","Lenz, Tobias"],["dc.contributor.author","Burilkov, Alexandr"],["dc.contributor.author","Viola, Lora Anne"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-03-04T11:05:58Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-03-04T11:05:58Z"],["dc.date.issued","2019"],["dc.description.abstract","How and under what conditions does legitimacy affect processes of international institutional change? This article specifies and evaluates three causal mechanisms by which variation in legitimacy induces institutional change in international organizations (IOs) and argues that an important, yet hitherto neglected, source of legitimacy-based change is cognitive in nature. Using survival analysis, we evaluate these mechanisms with a novel dataset on the establishment of parliamentary institutions in thirty-six regional organizations between 1950 and 2010. We find that the empowerment of supranational secretariats, engagement with the European Union, and parliamentarization in an organization's neighborhood increase the likelihood of regional parliamentarization. This suggests that legitimacy judgments that draw on cognitive referents provide an important source of international institutional change. We illustrate the underlying cognitive emulation mechanism with a case study of parliamentarization in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1093/isq/sqz051"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/17198"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/63096"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.relation.issn","0020-8833"],["dc.relation.issn","1468-2478"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Institut für Politikwissenschaft"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Arbeitsbereich Globales Regieren & Komparative Regionalismusforschung"],["dc.rights","CC BY-NC 4.0"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"],["dc.title","Legitimacy and the Cognitive Sources of International Institutional Change: The Case of Regional Parliamentarization"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","no"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]