International Criminal Court: The Politics and Practice of Prosecuting Atrocity Crimes
In: Global Institutions
In: Global Institutions
In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, S. 1-22
ISSN: 1743-8772
In: Studienkurs Politikwissenschaft
Das Buch stellt die Theorie politischer Institutionen in ihren Grundzügen vor. Es geht darum, über Einzelanalysen von Parlament oder Regierung hinaus die politischen Institutionen in ihrem Verhältnis zu ihren Adressaten, den Bürgerinnen und Bürgern, zu erfassen. In der Demokratie wirken die Bürgerinnen und Bürger zugleich selbst als Akteure auf die politischen Institutionen. Ihre wechselseitigen Beziehungen lassen sich aus den neueren Macht- und Repräsentationstheorien erschließen, eine erhebliche Rolle spielen auch Symbole. Auf dieser Grundlage wird analysiert, wie die politischen Institutionen Macht durch Steuerung und Integration ausüben. Ergebnis ist ein ausdifferenziertes Modell der institutionellen Konfiguration, mit dem sich auch Institutionenwandel bestimmen lässt.
In: Routledge global institutions series, 124
World Affairs Online
In: International Political Science Abstracts, Band 74, Heft 1, S. 49-65
ISSN: 1751-9292
SSRN
In: Routledge Revivals Series
First published in 1958, Russian Political Institutions is intended primarily to meet the need of university students for a good account of the political institutions of the Soviet Union in terms similar to those used in their study of other countries.
In: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience
This open access book focuses on institutions that were produced and formed by the emerging welfare state. How were institutions experienced by the people who interacted with them? How did institutions as sites of experience shape and structure people's everyday lives? Histories of institutions have mainly focused on the structures and power relations produced by institutional settings. Likewise, despite an extensive historiography of the welfare state, reflections on individuals' experiences of welfare are few. By using 'lived institutions' as its conceptual frame, this edited collection merges the fields of institutional studies, the history of the welfare state - and the novel and vibrant field of the history of experience
In: Comparative politics
ISSN: 2151-6227
Research in comparative politics on informal institutions can be grouped into analysis of norms and values within government institutions and studies of self-governance in communities that are relatively isolated from states. Three recent books by Nadya Hajj, Shelby Grossman, and David Skarbek advance this research agenda by showing that self-governance can be significant even in contexts where the state is present, including refugee camps, markets in urban settings, and in prisons. They also offer abundant insights into how to overcome challenges with measuring and analyzing informal institutions. Rather than prioritize private or public governance, the authors see these as imperfect alternatives that invite analysis of why private governance works better in some contexts than in others for communities seeking to improve their lives in challenging circumstances.
In: Journal of institutional economics, Band 20
ISSN: 1744-1382
Abstract
This paper explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) within economic institutions, focusing on bounded rationality as understood by Herbert Simon. Artificial Intelligence can do many things in the economy, such as increasing productivity, enhancing innovation, creating new sectors and jobs, and improving living standards. One of the ways that AI can disrupt the economy is by reducing the problem of bounded rationality. AI can help overcome this problem by processing large amounts of data, finding patterns and insights, and making predictions and recommendations. This insight raises the question: can AI overcome planning problems – could it be that central planning is now a viable option for economic organisation? This paper argues that AI does not make central planning viable at either the nation-state level or the firm level, simply because AI cannot resolve the knowledge problem as described by Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek.
In: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience Series
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Experience, Institutions, and the Lived Welfare State -- Introduction -- History of Experience and the Lived Welfare State -- Institutions -- The Current Volume -- Bibliography -- Published Sources -- Literature -- Part I: Encounters with Institutions -- Chapter 2: Navigating Imprisonment: Tactics and Experiences in an Eighteenth-Century Danish Prison Workhouse -- Introduction -- A Prison Between Poor Relief and Punishment -- The Structures of Prison Experience -- Petitioning the Authorities -- Escaping the Authorities -- Negotiating with the Authorities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Copenhagen City Archives (CCA) -- The Danish National Archives (DNA) -- Published Sources -- Literature -- Chapter 3: The Experience of Prison in Finnish Female Inmates' Letters from the 1880s to the 1900s -- Introduction -- Communicating Deviancy -- Communicating Loneliness -- Communicating Improvement -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- National Archives of Finland (NAF) -- Digital Archives of Finnish Family History Association (FFHA) -- Finnish National Museum -- Published Sources -- Literature -- Chapter 4: Re-negotiating Single Motherhood Within the Helsinki Mother and Child Home in Post-War Finland -- Introduction -- The Idea of a Separate Home -- Imagined and Aspired Institution in Women's Letters -- Encounters with Built and Regulated Space -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Labour Archives of Finland (LAF) -- Published Sources -- Literature -- Part II: Lived Social Citizenship -- Chapter 5: The Construction of Early Social Citizenship: The Lived Institution of Poor Relief in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Finland -- Introduction -- Local Citizenship -- Beyond Locality.
In: Global studies quarterly: GSQ, Band 4, Heft 1
ISSN: 2634-3797
Abstract
Where do communities of practice (CoPs) come from? What relationship do they entertain with institutions within or across which they develop? To what extent can institutions actually create CoPs? These questions are crucial, if only because of the benefits that CoPs are expected to bring, from innovation to learning to shared best practices. This article suggests that the most important relationship is between the CoP and its founding practice, which is ontologically prior to the CoP. The coming into existence of a CoP thus depends on the pre-existence of a founding practice and practical alignments. This argument counterbalances the two prevailing positions in the literature on CoPs, which focus on institutions instead of practices. In most IR literature on the topic, scholars have viewed CoPs as emerging "organically" and informally at the margins of institutions in a bottom-up fashion and from there often coming back to influence institutions bottom-up. Knowledge management scholars and institutional actors themselves have instead embraced a more agential and performative top-down approach by which CoPs can and should be cultivated to foster knowledge creation in business and international institutions alike. The article explores these positions with the help of examples drawn mainly from the European Union's experience, including the Joint Research Centre's attempt to cultivate CoPs from 2016 onwards.
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ
ISSN: 1538-165X
Abstract
Despite longstanding scholarly interest in international institutions, remarkably little research has been conducted in variation in performance across organizations. In this essay, I review Ranjit Lall's book, which aims to fill that gap. Lall argues that the chief impediment to high-functioning international organizations (IOs) are member-states with particularistic interests that attempt to capture the institutions. The solution, he maintains, is to bolster the de facto autonomy of the bureaucrats who staff these institutions by forging operational alliances with nonstate stakeholders and mandating that they perform functions that are difficult for members to monitor. I evaluate Lall's argument and evidence. I then discuss a set of additional issues that are related to the performance of international institutions. First, why do stakeholders often continue to support those organizations that perform poorly? Second, what mechanisms exist for improving the performance of ailing IOs? Third, how does the widely documented backlash against globalization that has transpired during the past few decades bear on IOs? Fourth, Lall and others tout the benefits of well-performing IOs, but such institutions, nonetheless, can have costly and unanticipated side effects that merit greater scrutiny. Finally, formal international institutions have been key features of world politics. However, additional research is needed on whether and, if so, why they have become less important aspects of global governance.
In: Environment and development economics, S. 1-28
ISSN: 1469-4395
Abstract
This paper tests the pollution emissions and institutional quality nexus in Africa. Specifically, we analyze the effect of the political regime and the quality of political governance on CO2 emissions. To control for endogeneity, we apply the system generalized method of moments on a dynamic panel of African countries over the period 1996–2020. The key finding suggests that better institutions have a negative and significant effect on pollution in Africa. The findings also validate the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis. Moreover, the results support the pollution haven hypothesis. Finally, if digitalization significantly curbs pollution, then industrialization, natural resources, as well as the intensive use of energy, are considered as positive predictors. All the sensitivity and robustness tests globally validate the strength of the negative association between the good quality of institutions and the level of polluting emissions in Africa. The results call for some policy recommendations in environmental regulation for African economies.