International Organizations as Policy Advisors
| dc.citation.firstpage | 537 | en_US |
| dc.citation.journalTitle | International Organization | en_US |
| dc.citation.lastpage | 569 | en_US |
| dc.citation.volumeNumber | 66 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Fang, Songying | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Stone, Randall W. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-02T18:15:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-11-03T05:10:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | How can international organizations persuade governments to adopt policy recommendations that are based on private information when their interests conflict? We develop a game-theoretic model of persuasion that applies regardless of regime type and does not rely on the existence of domestic constituency constraints+ In the model, an international organization ~IO! and a domestic expert have private information about a crisis, but their preferences diverge from those of the government, which must choose whether to delegate decision making to the expert+ Persuasion can take place if the international institution is able to send a credible signal+ We find that this can take place only if the preferences of the IO and the domestic expert diverge and the institution holds the more moderate policy position+ This result contrasts with conventional wisdom, which holds that the necessary condition for IOs to exert influence is support from a domestic constituency with aligned preferences. Our model suggests that, far from being an obstacle to international cooperation, polarized domestic politics may be a necessary condition for IOs to exert effective influence. | en_US |
| dc.embargo.terms | 6 months | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Fang, Songying and Stone, Randall W.. "International Organizations as Policy Advisors." <i>International Organization,</i> 66, (2012) The IO Foundation: 537-569. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020818312000276. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020818312000276 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71099 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The IO Foundation | |
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| dc.title | International Organizations as Policy Advisors | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |
| dc.type.publication | publisher version | en_US |