| ID | 178126 |
| Title Proper | Compensating for limitations in domestic output performance? Member state delegation of policy competencies to regional international organizations |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Panke, Diana |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Cooperation in regional international organizations (RIOs) can help member states to work toward and perhaps achieve policy goals that would not be feasible unilaterally. Thus, RIOs might be used as a means of states to compensate for domestic shortcomings in output performance. Do states equip RIOs with policy competencies in order to compensate corresponding domestic performance shortcomings? The analysis of a novel database on policy competencies of 76 RIOs between 1945 and 2015 reveals that usually RIOs are not usually used as window-dressing devices by which states disguise limited domestic output performance. Instead, governments tend to equip RIOs with policy competencies in order to further strengthen their already good output performance in most policy areas. However, in the policy area, ‘energy’ states tend to confer more competencies to their respective RIOs, the worse they perform domestically, indicating that output-related compensation dynamics might be at play in this field. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Relations Vol. 35, No.1; Mar 2021: p. 90-125 |
| Journal Source | International Relations Vol: 35 No 1 |
| Key Words | Regional Cooperation ; Legitimacy ; Comparative Analysis ; Member States ; Comparative Regionalism ; Output Performance ; Policy Areas ; Policy Competencies ; Regional International Organizations |