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Home turf: Headquarters of international organizations and earmarked funding 大本营:国际组织总部和专项资金
Pub Date : 2026-01-19 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-025-09612-4
Timon Forster
To what extent do states act differently through international organizations based in their own country relative to those located abroad? Building on scholarship on headquarters as ecosystems, city diplomacy, and informal power, I argue that states are more lenient vis-à-vis international organizations with headquarters in their own country. States are likely to opt for loose, rather than stringent, delegation of authority in everyday decision-making—holding the promise of increased informal influence and greater mutual trust and embeddedness over time. In the context of earmarked funding by Western donors—my empirical case—I hypothesize that donors are likely to provide less stringent funding to international organizations with headquarters in their own countries. Examining voluntary contributions from 32 donors to 255 international organizations between 1990 and 2020, I find support for my argument: international organizations receive less stringent earmarked funding from the donor-country in which the organization is headquartered. In additional analyses, I show that these effects are driven by thematic earmarking, and that the magnitude of the effects increases over time. I also discuss the two extreme cases of the United States and Switzerland to illustrate potential mechanisms. Taken together, my findings have important implications for our understanding of the micro-foundations of state action, the geography of international organizations, and earmarked funding.
各国通过设在本国的国际组织与设在国外的国际组织采取的行动在多大程度上有所不同?基于总部作为生态系统、城市外交和非正式权力的学术研究,我认为各国对总部设在本国的-à-vis国际组织更为宽容。各国很可能在日常决策中选择宽松而非严格的授权方式——随着时间的推移,它们有望增加非正式影响力,增强相互信任和相互参与。在西方捐助者指定资助的背景下——我的经验案例——我假设捐助者可能会向总部设在本国的国际组织提供不那么严格的资助。通过研究1990年至2020年间32个捐助国向255个国际组织提供的自愿捐款,我发现我的论点得到了支持:国际组织从其总部所在的捐助国获得的专项资金不那么严格。在其他分析中,我表明这些影响是由专题指定的,并且影响的程度随着时间的推移而增加。我还讨论了美国和瑞士的两个极端案例,以说明潜在的机制。综上所述,我的发现对我们理解国家行动的微观基础、国际组织的地理位置和专项资金具有重要意义。
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Public opinion and international organizations 舆论和国际组织
Pub Date : 2026-01-04 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-025-09614-2
Lisa Dellmuth, Jonas Tallberg
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Perfect scapegoats? Blaming and defending the International Monetary Fund 完美的替罪羊?指责和维护国际货币基金组织
Pub Date : 2025-12-27 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-025-09607-1
Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Tom Hunter, Sujeong Shim
International organizations (IOs) are considered ideal scapegoats for opportunistic member state governments. Yet we know surprisingly little about whether and when governments indeed shift blame onto IOs. We argue that IO scapegoating is not as pervasive as commonly assumed because blaming IOs is costly. Blaming IOs undermines governments’ credibility and threatens their cooperation gains. To reap cooperation gains, governments can instead defend the IO and bear public discontent. We theorize a Cooperation-Contestation Trade-Off that explains when governments blame or defend IOs: governments that rely heavily on international cooperation are more likely to defend IOs while governments that expect costly domestic contestation are more likely to blame them. We assess our theory by examining governments’ communication about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – an IO commonly assumed to be a perfect scapegoat. With an originally collected dataset of more than 800 statements referring to the IMF made by heads of governments in major IMF borrower countries, we find supportive evidence for our expectations. Crucially, we observe that whilst governments do frequently blame the IMF, they in fact defend the Fund more than they blame it. Our findings yield important implications for international cooperation in times of heightened politicization of IOs.
国际组织被认为是机会主义的成员国政府理想的替罪羊。然而,对于政府是否以及何时真的将责任推给IOs,我们知之甚少。我们认为,IO替罪羊并不像通常认为的那样普遍,因为指责IOs的代价很高。指责IOs破坏了政府的信誉,并威胁到他们的合作成果。为了获得合作收益,政府可以转而捍卫国际货币基金组织,忍受公众的不满。我们建立了一个合作-争论权衡的理论,解释了政府是指责还是捍卫IOs:严重依赖国际合作的政府更有可能捍卫IOs,而预计成本高昂的国内争论的政府更有可能指责他们。我们通过检查各国政府对国际货币基金组织(IMF)的沟通来评估我们的理论——IMF通常被认为是一个完美的替罪羊。根据最初收集的数据集,我们找到了支持我们预期的证据,其中包括IMF主要借款国政府首脑发表的800多份涉及IMF的声明。至关重要的是,我们观察到,虽然各国政府确实经常指责IMF,但实际上,它们更多地是在为IMF辩护,而不是指责IMF。我们的研究结果对国际组织高度政治化时期的国际合作具有重要意义。
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Donors’ technology interests and the allocation of development aid for climate change mitigation 捐助国的技术利益和用于减缓气候变化的发展援助的分配
Pub Date : 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-025-09613-3
Adrianna Pineda, Florian Egli, Tobias S. Schmidt
This paper investigates how technology differences shape the relationship between donor export interests and the allocation of official development assistance (ODA) for green electricity technologies (GETs). Utilizing ODA and export data from 22 OECD donor countries between 2006 and 2020, we employ quasi-binomial regression to examine how commercial interests influence bilateral and earmarked multilateral ODA commitments across wind, solar PV, hydropower, and grid technologies. Our findings reveal systematic variation in export-aid relationships across technologies. Stronger wind and hydropower export interests are associated with significantly higher aid shares. Evidence for this relationship is especially strong for ODA committed through directly donor-controlled bilateral channels, while tentative for project-earmarked multilateral aid. Conversely, solar PV exports are associated with reduced aid shares, while grid technology exports show no significant relationship with aid allocation. Notably, the association of aid and exports varies significantly across technologies, reflecting differences in technology and market characteristics. The positive relationships for wind and hydropower align with donor countries’ competitive advantages in complex, design-intensive technologies with high barriers to entry. The negative solar PV relationship reflects less competitive donor exports and the relevance of solar PV technologies for broader development objectives, likely leading exporters to prefer alternative promotion mechanisms. In the case of grid technologies, the lack of a statistically significant export-aid relationship is consistent with their role as enabling infrastructure benefiting diverse commercial and developmental interests. Our analysis indicates that commercial motivations in aid allocation vary systematically across technologies, including in donors’ commitments to international organizations. The results underscore the need for recipient countries and international organizations to consider technology-specific donor incentives when anticipating resource mobilization patterns. These findings have important implications for climate finance, as green industrial policies may stimulate aid flows for complex technologies while creating potential tensions between donor export strategies and recipient localization objectives.
本文研究了技术差异如何影响捐助国出口利益与绿色电力技术官方发展援助(ODA)分配之间的关系。利用2006年至2020年间22个经合组织捐助国的官方发展援助和出口数据,我们采用准二项回归分析了商业利益如何影响风能、太阳能光伏、水电和电网技术领域的双边和指定多边官方发展援助承诺。我们的研究结果揭示了不同技术之间出口援助关系的系统性变化。风电和水电出口利益的增强与援助份额的显著提高有关。这种关系的证据在通过直接捐助者控制的双边渠道承诺的官方发展援助方面尤其明显,而在项目专用的多边援助方面则是暂定的。相反,太阳能光伏出口与援助份额减少有关,而电网技术出口与援助分配没有显著关系。值得注意的是,援助和出口的关联在不同技术之间差异很大,反映了技术和市场特征的差异。风能和水力发电的积极关系符合捐助国在复杂、设计密集型、进入门槛高的技术方面的竞争优势。太阳能光伏的负关系反映了捐助者出口竞争力较弱和太阳能光伏技术与更广泛的发展目标的相关性,可能导致出口商倾向于其他促进机制。就电网技术而言,缺乏统计上显著的出口援助关系与它们作为使基础设施受益于各种商业和发展利益的作用是一致的。我们的分析表明,援助分配的商业动机因技术而异,包括捐助者对国际组织的承诺。结果强调受援国和国际组织在预测资源调动模式时需要考虑到具体技术的捐助者奖励措施。这些发现对气候融资具有重要意义,因为绿色产业政策可能刺激复杂技术的援助流动,同时在捐助国出口战略和受援国本地化目标之间造成潜在的紧张关系。
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Anti-Americanism and foreign aid preferences among political elites: Evidence from Tunisia 政治精英中的反美主义和对外援助偏好:来自突尼斯的证据
Pub Date : 2025-12-06 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-025-09611-5
Alexandra Domike Blackman, Aytuğ Şaşmaz, Renu Singh, Scott Williamson
International aid is a key resource for local development, and project implementation is influenced by local political elites. However, we know little about how these elites view aid and whether they are more likely to prefer some funding sources over others. We explore elite attitudes toward aid in Tunisia, arguing that local politicians are less likely to prefer development programs funded by the United States compared to other domestic or foreign sources. Through a conjoint experiment embedded in a survey of local Tunisian politicians, we find a strong aversion to local development projects funded by USAID. Analysis of subgroup effects and comparisons to other international donors suggests the negative reaction is driven by ideological rather than material concerns. This research provides insights into elite perceptions of foreign aid in recipient countries and contributes to our understanding of how anti-Americanism can affect policymaking in the Middle East.
国际援助是地方发展的关键资源,项目实施受到地方政治精英的影响。然而,我们对这些精英如何看待援助知之甚少,也不知道他们是否更有可能偏爱某些资金来源。我们探讨了精英阶层对突尼斯援助的态度,认为与其他国内或国外来源相比,当地政客不太可能喜欢由美国资助的发展项目。通过对突尼斯当地政治家的调查中嵌入的一项联合实验,我们发现人们对美国国际开发署资助的当地发展项目有强烈的反感。对亚群体效应的分析以及与其他国际捐助者的比较表明,负面反应是由意识形态而非物质问题驱动的。这项研究提供了对受援国精英对外国援助的看法的见解,并有助于我们理解反美主义如何影响中东的政策制定。
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Polarization in American support for International Organizations, 2017–2024 2017-2024年美国对国际组织支持的两极分化
Pub Date : 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-025-09605-3
Sevdenur Koru, Diana C. Mutz
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Twin diplomacy: Strategic co-author selection and resolution outcomes at the UNSC 双生外交:战略共同作者的选择和联合国安理会的决议结果
Pub Date : 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-025-09610-6
Andrea Knapp
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International bureaucrats under transparency: The case of the WTO TRIPS Council 透明度下的国际官僚:WTO TRIPS理事会的案例
Pub Date : 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-025-09606-2
Sojun Park, Minju Kim
How does transparency affect the behavior of international bureaucrats tasked with facilitating negotiations? Existing theories offer opposing expectations—greater transparency might induce international bureaucrats to engage more with contentious issues that matter to the public or lead them to avoid those issues whenever possible. We assess these competing perspectives by analyzing the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s 2002 document de-restriction reform that enhanced transparency to the public. Specifically, we examine how prompt public disclosure of documents shapes the way the WTO Secretariat writes reports about the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). Using network statistics to estimate the state preference distributions on key topics, we find that, after the reform, the WTO Secretariat is more likely to issue reports on polarized topics in negotiations, using accountability-enhancing words. Our analysis at the country-year level shows that the reform led to greater national newspaper coverage of the WTO TRIPS, which in turn raised public awareness. The results suggest that transparency could empower international bureaucrats to tackle divisive issues in times of member-state gridlock.
透明度如何影响负责促进谈判的国际官僚的行为?现有的理论给出了相反的预期——更高的透明度可能会促使国际官僚更多地参与与公众有关的有争议的问题,或者引导他们尽可能地避免这些问题。我们通过分析世界贸易组织(WTO) 2002年的文件去限制改革来评估这些相互竞争的观点,该改革提高了对公众的透明度。具体而言,我们研究了文件的及时公开披露如何影响世贸组织秘书处撰写《与贸易有关的知识产权协定》(TRIPS)报告的方式。利用网络统计估计关键议题的国家偏好分布,我们发现,改革后,WTO秘书处更有可能在谈判中发布两极分化议题的报告,使用加强问责的词语。我们在国家-年度层面的分析表明,改革导致了更多的国家报纸对WTO TRIPS的报道,这反过来又提高了公众的意识。研究结果表明,在成员国陷入僵局的时候,透明度可以使国际官僚有能力解决分歧问题。
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Experimental evidence on the financial consequences of international organization legitimacy 关于国际组织合法性的财政后果的实验证据
Pub Date : 2025-11-05 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-025-09609-z
Jiseon Chang, Mirko Heinzel, Daniel Nielson
International organizations (IOs) face growing resource constraints amid increasing scrutiny and legitimacy challenges from member states. In response, many IOs are seeking to diversify their funding sources by appealing to non-state actors, including individual donors. Yet, little is known about what motivates the public to contribute financially to IOs. This study investigates whether IOs’ efforts at self-legitimation influence donation behavior, distinguishing among three forms of legitimacy: (a) procedural, (b) performance-based, and (c) mandate-based. We examine the effects of legitimacy messaging on public donations to UNICEF through a series of pre-registered survey, field, and survey-based field experiments involving over 22 million Facebook users across five countries—Brazil, Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom. Our findings indicate that legitimacy appeals have limited impact on individuals’ willingness or actual decisions to donate. These results suggest a need for further research into the practical implications of legitimacy in global governance.
国际组织面临着日益严峻的资源限制和来自成员国的合法性挑战。对此,许多国际组织正寻求通过吸引包括个人捐助者在内的非国家行为体来实现其资金来源的多样化。然而,我们却很少知道是什么促使公众为IOs付费。本研究调查了IOs在自我合法化方面的努力是否会影响捐赠行为,并区分了三种形式的合法性:(a)程序性,(b)基于绩效的,(c)基于授权的。我们通过一系列预先注册的调查、实地调查和基于实地调查的实地实验,考察了合法性信息对联合国儿童基金会公共捐款的影响,这些实验涉及巴西、埃及、印度、沙特阿拉伯和英国等五个国家的2200多万Facebook用户。我们的研究结果表明,合法性诉求对个人捐赠意愿或实际决定的影响有限。这些结果表明,有必要进一步研究合法性在全球治理中的实际影响。
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How do higher-order punishment institutions shape cooperation and norm-enforcement? 高级惩罚机构如何塑造合作和规范执行?
Pub Date : 2025-05-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11558-025-09594-3
Jan Philipp Krügel, Nicola Maaser

We explore, both theoretically and through a laboratory experiment, the impact of different forms of higher-order punishment on third-party behavior and cooperation levels within a public goods game. This investigation may shed light on how norms influence national governments, as monitored by international organizations or disciplined by electoral competition, and how these norms are subsequently enforced on and followed by domestic agents, e.g., businesses. Specifically, we compare two main treatments that represent the effects of competitive elections and external monitors in a stylized form. These treatments are contrasted with a control condition that lacks an additional layer of norm enforcement. While both higher-order punishment institutions enhance cooperation compared to the control, our findings reveal differences between the two scenarios: Evaluation of the third party by an uninvolved agent leads to heightened punishment and reduced free-riding, whereas competition between two third-party candidates results in more strategic and selective punitive actions.

我们从理论和实验室实验两方面探讨了不同形式的高阶惩罚对公共产品博弈中第三方行为和合作水平的影响。这项调查可能阐明规范如何影响由国际组织监测或由选举竞争约束的国家政府,以及这些规范随后如何在国内代理人(如企业)身上得到执行和遵守。具体来说,我们比较了两种主要的处理方式,它们代表了竞争选举和外部监督的影响。这些处理与缺乏额外规范执行层的控制条件形成对比。虽然与对照组相比,两个高阶惩罚机构都加强了合作,但我们的研究结果揭示了两种情况之间的差异:一个不参与的代理人对第三方的评估导致惩罚力度加大,搭便车行为减少,而两个第三方候选人之间的竞争导致更具战略性和选择性的惩罚行动。
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