Negotiation and Institutionalization: Explaining International Institutional Choice and Comparing the Performance of Negotiations within Different Institutional Settings

Research question/goal: 

We reconstruct and explain international institution-building as a result of negotiation systems. We research whether existing international institutions facilitate international conflict resolution and and whether they induce and stabilize sustainable cooperation. Institutional and organizational economics is the guiding theorietical perspective. Main hypotheses are empirically tested with selected case studies, with a special focus on European Union integration.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
DFG
Duration: 
2003 to 2005
Status: 
completed
Data Sources: 
Elite survey, Official Data, Secondary Analysis
Geographic Space: 
EU

Publications

Books

Linhart, Eric (2006): Die Erklärungskraft spiel- und tauschtheoretischer Verhandlungsmodelle in Abhängigkeit vom Institutionalisierungsgrad des Verhandlungssystems. Mannheim: Mannheim University Press. more
Riedel, Eibe, and Dirk Hanschel (Eds.) (2005): Institutionalization of International Negotiation Systems - Theoretical Concepts and Practical Insights (Conference Report). Mannheim: Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung. more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Eibe Riedel, Paul W. Thurner and Roland Vaubel (Eds.) (2004): Die Institutionalisierung internationaler Verhandlungen. Frankfurt/New York: Campus. [Mannheimer Jahrbuch für Europäische Sozialforschung; 8] more

Journal Articles

Boockmann, Bernhard, and Paul W. Thurner (2006): Flexibility Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Treaties. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 6, pp. 113-135. more
Thurner, Paul W., and Franz Urban Pappi (2006): Domestic and International Politics during EU Intergovernmental Conferences. Bridging the Gap between Negotiation Theory and Practice. Negotiation Journal, 22, issue 2, pp. 167-185. more
Thurner, Paul W. (2005): Rezension von Thomas Bräuninger: Internationale Institutionenpolitik: die Wahl von Entscheidungsregeln für die Meeresbodenbehörde. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 57, issue 2, pp. 356-358. more
Thurner, Paul W., and Eric Linhart (2004): Political Multilevel Negotiations and Issue Linkage during an EU Intergovernmental Conference: An Empirical Application. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory. (Special Issue on Social Structures, Decision Making, and Governance in the Information Society, ed. by Giampiero E.G. Beroggi), 10, issue 3, pp. 243-266. more

Book Chapters

Thurner, Paul W. (2010): Political Network Analysis. Pp. 1257-1259 in: Geoffrey Garrett, Margaret Levi, Paula D. McClain, James E. Alt, Simone Chambers (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Political Science. Washington: CQ Press. more
Thurner, Paul W. (2009): Internationale Verhandlungen und Interministerielle Koordination. Pp. 259-270 in: Datenwelten. Datenerhebung und Datenbestände in der Politikwissenschaft. Baden-Baden: Nomos. more
Thurner, Paul W. (2008): Verfahren der kollektiven Entscheidungsfindung. Pp. 275-280 in: Stefan Gosepath, Wilfried Hinsch, Beate Rössler (Eds.) Handbuch der politischen Philosophie und Sozialphilosophie. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. more
Thurner, Paul W., and Franz Urban Pappi (2005): Quantitative Negotiation Analyses: Insights from the Social Scientists’ Craft. Pp. 97-121 in: Eibe Riedel, Dirk Hanschel (Eds.) Institutionalization of International Negotiation Systems. Theoretical Concepts and Practical Insights. Mannheim: Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung. more
Linhart, Eric, and Paul W. Thurner (2004): Die Erklärungskraft spiel- und tauschtheoretischer Verhandlungsmodelle. Ein empirischer Vergleich am Beispiel des Endgames der Regierungskonferenz 1996. Pp. 261-289 in: Eibe Riedel, Roland Vaubel (Eds.) Die Institutionalisierung Internationaler Verhandlungssysteme. Frankfurt/New York: Campus-Verl.. more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Eibe Riedel, Paul W. Thurner and Roland Vaubel (2004): Die Institutionalisierung internationaler Verhandlungssysteme als Fragestellung einer interdisziplinären Forschergruppe. Pp. 11-30 in: Eibe Riedel, Roland Vaubel (Eds.) Die Institutionalisierung Internationaler Verhandlungen. Frankfurt/New: Campus. more

MZES Working Papers

Saam, Nicole, Paul W. Thurner and Frank Arndt (2004): Dynamics of International Negotiations : a Simulation of EU Intergovernmental Conferences. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 78] more
Thurner, Paul W., and Eric Linhart (2004): EU intergovernmental conferences and domestic politics: an empirical application of the Putnam conjectures. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 77] more

Other Publications

Saam, Nicole, Paul W. Thurner and Frank Arndt (2004): Dynamics of International Negotiations. A Simulation of EU Intergovernmental Conferences. [Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Logic and Methodology. August 17-20, 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherlands] more
Boockmann, Bernhard, and Paul W. Thurner (2002): Flexibility Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Treaties. Mannheim [ZEW Discussion Paper] more
Linhart, Eric, and Paul W. Thurner (2002): Die Erklärungskraft spiel- und tauschtheoretischer Verhandlungsmodelle bei gegebenem Institutionalisierungsgrad. Ein empirischer Vergleich am Beispiel des Endgames der Regierungskonferenz 1996. Mannheim more

Conference Presentations

Thurner, Paul W. (2007): Intergouvernemental Cooperation und Informal Administrative Action. [Coordination of Fragmented Authority: The Challenge of Institutional Collective Action in Metropolitan Areas, Florida State University, February 16th to February 17th, 2007] more
Linhart, Eric (2006): Internationale Verhandlungssysteme: Institutionalisierung, Akteursverhalten und Reformchancen.. [23. wissenschaftlicher Kongress der DVPW (AK Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie), Münster, September 27th to September 28th, 2006] more
Thurner, Paul W. (2005): Explaining Transgovernmental Network Choices with Exponential Random Graph Models. [Research Group ‘Decision Theory’, German Political Science Association, Mannheim, June 23rd to June 24th, 2005] more
Thurner, Paul W. (2005): Promoting Good Governance and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries: The Role of Parliament and Government. [Wilton Park Conference, Steyning, West Sussex, June 06th to June 10th, 2005] more
Thurner, Paul W. (2005): Strategic Political Communication: A Public Choice Perspective. [International Summer Academy on Political Consulting and Strategic Campaign Communication, Mannheim, July 11th, 2005] more