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Author Breitmeier, Helmut

Title Analyzing international environmental regimes : from case study to database / Helmut Breitmeier, Oran R. Young, and Michael Zürn
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : illustrations
Series Global environmental accord
Global environmental accords.
Contents Series Foreword; Preface The Long Road to Cumulative Knowledge; 1 Regime Theory: Achievements and Challenges; 2 Database Architecture, Case Structures, and Coding Procedures; 3 Sources of Compliance with International Regimes; 4 Decision Rules, Compliance Mechanisms, and the Effectiveness of Regimes; 5 Programmatic Activities, Knowledge, and Environmental Problem Solving; 6 Conclusion: Key Findings and Future Directions; Appendix A Excerpts from the IRD Data Protocol; Appendix B Using Formal Concept Analysis to Explore the International Regimes Database; Notes; References; Index
Summary Regime theory has become an increasingly influential approach to the analysis of international relations, particularly in the areas of international political economy and international environmental politics. The conceptual appeal of the idea of "governance without government"--in which a combination of different organizations and institutions supply governance to address specific problems--reflects a world in which the demand for governance is great but the familiar mechanisms for supplying it are weak. Most research on international regimes employs qualitative methods, often using case studies to develop larger theoretical arguments; but a lack of standardization makes comparative analysis difficult. Analyzing International Environmental Regimes introduces the International Regimes Database (IRD), an important methodological innovation that allows scholars to adopt a quantitative approach to the study of international regimes.The IRD is a relational database that makes it possible to compare records on specific aspects of a number of international environmental regimes that are coded using a single, well-defined set of concepts, definitions, and scales. The book first describes the database and discusses a number of methodological, technical, and architectural issues. It then illustrates the use of the IRD as an analytic tool, drawing on the database for descriptive statistics to evaluate theoretical ideas about compliance, decision rules, and the role of knowledge. A CD containing the full IRD data protocol and all the data currently in the database accompanies the book
Analysis ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index
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SUBJECT International regimes database. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006012065
International regimes database fast
Subject Environmental sciences -- Information services
Environmental sciences -- Databases
Environmental management -- International cooperation
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
Environmental management -- International cooperation
Environmental sciences
Environmental sciences -- Information services
Genre/Form Databases
Form Electronic book
Author Young, Oran R
Zürn, Michael, 1959-
LC no. 2006041964
ISBN 9780262269230
0262269236
0262026023
9780262026024
0262524619
9780262524612
1429409916
9781429409919
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9781282098312