id,collection,dc.contributor.author,dc.date.accessioned,dc.date.available,dc.date.issued,dc.description.abstract[en],dc.format.extent,dc.identifier.uri,dc.language,dc.relation.ispartofseries,dc.rights.uri,dc.subject.ddc,dc.title,dc.title.subtitle,dc.type,dcterms.accessRights.openaire,dcterms.bibliographicCitation,dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url,dcterms.isPartOf.issn,refubium.affiliation[de],refubium.mycore.derivateId,refubium.mycore.fudocsId,refubium.series.issueNumber,refubium.series.name "af5c574c-0558-49b9-b5fc-9e6f5d46c28f","fub188/17694","Giesen, Michael","2018-06-08T11:44:45Z","2017-08-30T09:45:31.144Z","2017","In the last three decades Regional Parliamentary Institutions (RPIs) have experienced a rapid increase and spread across all regions around the globe. They represent a unique parliamentary phenomenon of international affairs that first and foremost exhibits a genuine legitimacy nexus between local constituencies and the international area. This paper builds on this characteristic and elaborates a legitimacy approach that identifies three legitimacy mechanisms that may help to conceptualize the establishment of specific design features of RPIs. To this end, a concise typology of RPIs with two disjunctive criteria – election mode and connection to a parent regional organization – provides the grounds for a systematic analysis of their organizational design. Building on a newly created dataset of 68 globally spread RPIs, the empirical analysis generates two main findings: (1) the rapid increase of RPIs after 1989 is empirically corroborated for all regions and most types of these institutions; (2) two standard applications of the developed legitimacy mechanisms – functional and normative legitimacy arguments – are not significant in explaining the choice of specific design features of RPIs. Therefore, the observed rapid increase and global spread of these institutions provide tentative evidence to support a diffusion analysis of their emergence and design, making the paper call for a more thorough conceptualization of RPIs’ organizational design and processes of inter- dependent decision-making.","33 Seiten","https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22020||http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-25230","eng","urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudocsseries000000000055-9","http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen","300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft","Regional Parliamentary Institutions","Diffusion of a Global Parliamentary Organizational Design?","Buch","open access","KFG Working Paper","http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/v/transformeurope/publications/working_paper/wp/wp80/index.html","1868-7601","Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften","FUDOCS_derivate_000000008668","FUDOCS_document_000000027722","80","KFG working paper"