Science, Technology and International Collaboration, 1999 ...

• Main Author: Underdal, Arild
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research 2024
• Subjects: Government, political systems and organisations; International politics and organisations; POLITICS; Fridtjof Nansen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18712/nsd-nsd1702-v2; https://surveybanken.sikt.no/study/NSD1702/2

This survey was set up and completed as a collaboration project between scientists at The School of Marine Affairs, The University of Washington, Fridtjof Nansen Institute and the University of Oslo, Department of Political Science. The project arouse from a common interest in more precise knowledge about why some international regimes “succeed” while others “fail”. The study was based on two explanations. One of them seeks the answer in characteristics of the problem the regimes are going to solve. The other seeks the answer in characteristics of the institutions and systems that deals with the problem. The assumption here is that some institutions and systems have a greater capacity than others to solve particular types of problems. The study then attempted to specify each of these theses in a set of more precise hypotheses, and tested this against the empirical material. The database provides information about fourteen international regimes and variance in regime effectiveness. The regimes included dealt ...