Bargaining, Delegation and Enforcement in International Organizations

Simon Hug1
CIS; IPZ, Universität Zürich
 
1st Conference on the Political Economy of International Organizations
Monte Veritá, February 3-8, 2008

First partial version: Jul 12, 2009 , please do not quote

Abstract

International organizations involve a complex web of bargaining, delegation and enforcement. While the theoretical literature has started to make some foray in studying how enforcement of international agreements (which form the essence of international organizations) affects the way in which these agreements are negotiated, the issue of delegation is still largely neglected. In this paper I propose to theoretically analyze how bargaining over international agreements is affected simultaneously by the problems of enforcement and the delegation of tasks to both an international body and/or member countries.


Footnotes:

1  Institut für Politikwissenschaft; Universität Zürich; Hirschengraben 56; 8001 Zürich; Switzerland; phone +41 (0)44 634 50 90/1; fax: +41 (0)44 634 50 98; email: simon.hug@access.unizh.ch




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