Informal governance and participation in non-democratic international organizations

Alexander Libman and Anastassia Obydenkova

The Review of International Organizations, 2013, vol. 8, issue 2, 243 pages

Abstract: This article uses the informal governance framework to elucidate the connection between regime transition and participation in regional international organizations (IOs). In particular, this study focuses on non-democratic regional IOs and examines the empirical case of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). We investigate how the level of regime transition of each CIS member state affects its participation in the CIS. The paper utilizes an original dataset that contains information regarding the number of CIS-related agreements that have been signed by each CIS member state during the 1991–2010 time period, which can be used to measure the level of participation of each state in the CIS. We find that states with a lower level of democratization and a higher level of marketization are more likely to participate in agreements within the CIS. The paper contributes to the wider application of informal governance framework by demonstrating the usefulness of these theories for understanding the nature and dynamics of regional IOs, such as the CIS. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

Keywords: Informal governance; Regional international organization; Democratization; Marketization; F15; P26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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