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Taking Institutions Seriously: How Regime Analysis can be Relevant to Multilevel Environmental Governance

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This article starts with the observation that in the study and practice of global environmental governance (GEG) institutions and organizations are often conflated. For regime theorists they are not the same thing and the argument is advanced that, despite its failings, the regime/institutional approach continues to have significant analytical advantages. However, the benefits of regime analysis can only be realized if it avoids becoming an arena for inter-governmental rational choice theorizing and takes institutions seriously. One way of doing this is to utilize John Searle's "general theory of institutional facts." Searle's work provides the inspiration for a re-consideration of the bases, components, domain and explanation of global environmental regimes. It is argued that it could yield a new institutional approach which overcomes some of the problems of existing regime analyses in ways appropriate to the study of multilevel environmental governance. Copyright (c) 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • John Vogler, 2003. "Taking Institutions Seriously: How Regime Analysis can be Relevant to Multilevel Environmental Governance," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 3(2), pages 25-39, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:3:y:2003:i:2:p:25-39
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    1. Vogler, John, 2010. "The institutionalisation of trust in the international climate regime," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(6), pages 2681-2687, June.
    2. Romanova, Tatiana, 2023. "A choice between neoliberal engagement and strategic autonomy? The impossibility of EU's green cooperation with Russia between 2019 and 2021," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    3. Anne Egelston & Scott Cook & Tu Nguyen & Samantha Shaffer, 2019. "Networks for the Future: A Mathematical Network Analysis of the Partnership Data for Sustainable Development Goals," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(19), pages 1-13, October.
    4. Sylvia I. Karlsson‐Vinkhuyzen, 2012. "From Rio to Rio via Johannesburg: Integrating institutions across governance levels in sustainable development deliberations," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 36(1), pages 3-15, February.

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