Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations
This working paper from IGCC affiliates and co-authors Christina Cottiero, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Stephan Haggard, Lauren Prather, and Christina Schneider outlines the theoretical foundations of their work on illiberal regimes and international organizations, and how differing memberships and decision-making processes within international organizations affect the influence, activities, and impact of illiberal regimes.
DownloadIlliberal regimes have become central players in international organizations. In this working paper, co-authors Christina Cottiero, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Stephan Haggard, Lauren Prather, and Christine Schneider provide a unified framework for understanding their effects. They start by outlining the theoretical foundations of this work, focusing first on why regime type matters for international cooperation. The co-authors then show how differing memberships and decision-making processes within international organizations affect the influence illiberal regimes can wield, the activities they undertake, and the impact that they have on domestic political outcomes.
This working paper is part of an IGCC series on illiberal regimes and international organizations, which was made possible in part by generous support from the Smith Richardson Foundation. Seven papers in the series, including this paper, will be published in a special issue of the Review of International Organizations in 2024. The full collection of working papers can be viewed here.
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