Measuring the effectiveness of international environmental regimes
- Although past research has emphasized the importance of international regimes for international gover-nance, systematic assessments of regime effects are missing. This article derives a standardized measure-ment concept for the effectiveness of international environmental regimes. It is based on a simultaneous evaluation of actual policy against a no-regime counterfactual and a collective optimum. Subsequently, the empirical feasibility of the measurement concept is demonstrated by way of two international treaties regu-lating transboundary air pollution in Europe. The results demonstrate that the regimes indeed show positive effects;but fall substantially short of the collective optima.
| Author details: | Carsten Helm, Detlef F. SprinzORCiDGND |
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| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2000 |
| Publication year: | 2000 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/24 |
| Source: | Journal of conflict resolution. - 45 (2000), 5, S. 630 - 652 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
