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1 Measuring International Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance, Volume III LIESBET HOOGHE, GARY MARKS, TOBIAS LENZ, JEANINE BEZUIJEN, BESIR CEKA, SVET DERDERYAN CONTENTS PART I: MEASUREMENT Chapter 1: International Authority: From Concept to Measure Chapter 2: How We Apply the Coding Scheme Chapter 3: From Scoring to Aggregation: The MIA Dataset Appendix PART II: PROFILES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Chapter 1: Africa Chapter 2: Americas Chapter 3: Asia-Pacific Chapter 4: Europe Chapter 5: Middle East

2 Chapter 6: Multi-Regional References Index

3 DETAILED CONTENTS Acknowledgments List of Tables List of Figures PART I: MEASUREMENT Chapter One: International Authority: From Concept to Measure From Naïve to Sophisticated Measurement I. The Core Concept: International Authority II. Specifying International Authority Unit of Analysis Why Formal Rules? III. Dimensions of International Authority: Delegation and Pooling IV. Indicators Dispute Settlement The Policy Portfolio V. Scoring Cases Conclusion

4 Chapter Two: How We Apply the Coding Scheme Nuts and Bolts Institutional Structure Assembly Executive General Secretariat Consultative Bodies Decision Making Ratification Bindingness Membership: Accession and Suspension Constitutional Reform Financial Decision Making Policy Making Dispute Settlement Conclusion Chapter Three: From Scoring to Aggregation The MIA Dataset Delegation Composition Scores Delegation in Agenda Setting and the Final Decision Delegation in Dispute Settlement Aggregate Delegation Scores Pooling State-dominated Bodies Voting Scores Bindingness and Ratification Aggregate Pooling Scores A First Look at Delegation and Pooling Appendix to Part I A.I: MIA Dataset: Seventy-Six International Organizations ( ) A.II: Coding scheme A.III: The MIA Tables on Delegation and Pooling

5 PART TWO: PROFILES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Introduction Chapter One: Africa (48,374 words) African Union (AU) ( ) Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States (CEMAC) ( ) Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) ( ) East African Community I (EAC I) ( ) East African Community II (EAC II) ( ) Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) ( ) Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ( ) Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) ( ) Southern African Customs Union (SACU) ( ) Southern African Development Community (SADC) ( ) Chapter Two: Americas Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) ( ) Andean Community (CAN) ( ) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ( ) Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) ( ) North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ( ) Organization of American States (OAS) ( ) Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) ( ) Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA) ( ) Central American Integration System (SICA) ( ) Chapter Three: Asia-Pacific Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ( ) Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) ( ) South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) ( ) Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) ( ) Pacific Community (SPC) ( ) Chapter Four: Europe Benelux Economic Union (BENELUX) ( ) Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) ( )

6 Council of Europe (COE) ( ) Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) ( ) European Free Trade Association (EFTA) ( ) European Union (EU) ( ) Nordic Council (NORDIC) ( ) Chapter Five: Middle East Arab Magreb Union (AMU) ( ) Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ( ) League of Arab States (LAS) ( ) Organization of Arab Petroleum Export Countries (OAPEC) ( ) Chapter Six: Multi-Regional Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ( ) Commonwealth of Nations (COMSEC) ( ) International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) ( ) International Labor Organization (ILO) ( ) International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) ( ) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ( ) International Organization for la Francophonie (OIF) ( ) Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) ( ) Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) ( ) The United Nations (UN) ( ) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ( ) References (21,551 words) Primary references (6,016 words) Secondary references (15,535 words) Index

7 List of Tables 1.1 Conceptualizing variation in international authority 1.2 Mokken scale analysis 1.3 Policy portfolio 2.1 Composition of an IO 2.2 Structure of the assembly 2.3 Composition of the executive 2.4 Who decides using what decision rule? 2.5 Representation in the executive 2.6 Selection and removal of the head of the general secretariat 2.7 The structure of consultation 2.8 Ratification 2.9 Bindingness 2.10 Decision areas that may be subject to ratification and bindingness 2.11 Decision making on membership 2.12 Decision making on constitutional reform 2.13 Financial autonomy 2.14 Decision making on the budget 2.15 Decision making on policy making 2.16 Dispute settlement 2.A.1 Coding schema 3.1 Decision areas that may be subject to ratification or bindingness 3.2 Weights for bindingness and ratification 3.3 Factor analysis 3.4 Correlation matrix 3.5 Descriptives on delegation 3.6 Descriptives on pooling A.1 MIA Dataset: Seventy-six international organizations ( ) A.2 Coding scheme A.3 Scores on delegation of international authority A.4 Scores on pooling international authority

8 List of Figures 1.1 Measurement model 1.2 A model of IO decision making 3.1. Delegation, Pooling, Delegation by decision area, Beanplots for delegation by decision area, Beanplots for delegation by decision stage, Boxplots for delegation, Pooling by decision area, Beanplots for pooling by decision area, Beanplots for pooling by decision stage, Boxplots for pooling, Delegation and pooling in 2010 II.1. Horizontal and vertical validity

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