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CENTRAL ISSUES IN THE ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL
RULE MAKING
Frank Vibert
Senior Visiting Fellow
THE ROLE OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
• IN DESCRIBING THE RULE MAKING ENVIRONMENT.
• IN ANALYSING THE TWO KEY ISSUES:
– THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT.– THE FAILURES OF RULE MAKERS.
DESCRIBING THE ENVIRONMENT
• TWO FEATURES TO DESCRIBE AND EXPLAIN:
• MULTIPLICITY OF ORGANISATIONAL FORMS.
• MULTIPLICITY OF INSTRUMENT TYPES.
THE MULTIPLICITY OF ORGANISATIONAL FORMS:I
• POTENTIAL EXPLANATIONS IN ECONOMICS.
• CLUB CREATION?
• COMPETITION?– DELIBERATE POLICY OF CREATING
SUBSTITUTE FORUMS.
• EMPIRE BUILDING?– (FAVOURS AFFILIATES NOT RIVALS).
THE MULTIPLICITY OF ORGANISATIONAL FORMS: II
• POLITICAL SCIENCE EXPLANATIONS:– NORMS v CLUBS v EXPERT GROUPS.
• SOCIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS:– PROFESSIONS (ABBOTT).– STRUCTURAL HOLES. (BURT).
MULTIPLICITY OF INSTRUMENT TYPES
• POTENTIAL EXPLANATIONS IN ECONOMICS:– CREDIBLE COMMITMENT. (GAME THEORY).
• EXPLANATION IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW:– RECONCILING INCLUSIVENESS IN
CONTRACTING (FLEXIBILITY) WITH LAW AS A LAST RESORT IN IMPLEMENTATION.
– GROWTH OF INTERMEDIATE INSTRUMENTS.
ANALYSIS: 1. THE DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT.
• THE APPROACH OF ECONOMICS.– P/A THEORY.
• THE APPROACH OF POLITICAL SCIENCE:– MULTI LEVEL GOVERNANCE. (FORM).– THE ‘TWO STEP’.
• THE APPROACH OF SOCIOLOGY.– DIFFUSION. (ACTORS, THEIR LOGIC AND
PROCESS).
Treatment of dissent
Approach of economics -secession
Approach of political science- power sharing (consociational)
Approach of law- legal pluralism.
ANALYSIS II: FAILURE
• THE APPROACH OF ECONOMICS.– CAPTURE?– IRRATIONAL GOALS? – ENDS /MEANS IRRATIONALITY (PSYCHOLOGY).
• THE APPROACH OF POLITICAL SCIENCE.– EPISTEMIC ELITES.– SCALE INFLEXIBILITY.
• THE APPROACH OF SOCIOLOGY.– DISPOSITIONS;– THE CORPORATE ANALOGY (EXECUTIVE,
CULTURAL, COGNITIVE).
THE RESIDUAL ROLE OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
• STABILITY OF ARRANGEMENTS. – ECONOMISING ON TRANSACTION COSTS.
• CONVERGENCE ON HYBRID FORMS?– EXPERT/UNIVERSAL– PUBLIC/PRIVATE.
• (the market place for institutions & agreements).
WHY RESIDUAL ROLE???
• ISSUES FOUNDATIONAL (BEHIND THE VEIL OF CONSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS).
• ISSUES OFTEN NORMATIVE.
• THE DIVIDE WITH SOCIOLOGY. (METHODOLOGICAL).
• .
THE FUTURE
• BEHAVIOURAL RESEARCH.
• WORLD CONSTITUTIONALISM