Disaggregating International Regimes―A New Approach to Evaluation and Comparison

Evaluating the effectiveness of international regimes presents challenges that areboth general and specific. What are the best methodologies for assessment within a governance areaand do they enable comparison across areas? In this book, Olav Schram Stokke connects the general tothe specific, developing new tools for assessing international regime effectiveness and thenapplying them to a particular case, governance of the Barents Sea fisheries. Stokke's innovativedisaggregate methodology makes cross-comparison possible by breaking down the problem and therelevant empirical evidence. Stokke employs fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, and hisapproach is disaggregate in three ways: it separates the specific governance problem into itscognitional, regulatory, and behavioral components; it splits into three the counterfactual analysisof what the outcome would have been if the regime had not existed; and it decomposes the empiricalevidence to maximize the number of observations. By applying this methodology to a regional resourceregime known as one of the world's most successful, Stokke bridges the gap between the intensivecase study analyses that have dominated the field and increasingly ambitious efforts to devisequantitative methods for examining the causal impacts of regimes. Stokke's analysis sheds light onthe implementation and the interaction of international institutions, with policy implications ofregime design and operation.

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