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| Author: | Shanks, C. Jacobson, H. Kaplan, J. |
| Title: | Inertia and change in the constellation of international governmental organizations, 1981-1992 |
| Journal: | International Organization
1996 : AUTUMN, VOL. 50:4, p. 593-628 |
| Index terms: | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS GOVERNMENT CHANGE |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Hardly anyone expects public institutions to die. Yet a census reveals that fully one-third of the international governmental organizations (IGOs) in existence in 1981 had in fact become defunct by 1992. Most Eastern bloc and many regional developing country organizations vanished or became inactive. During this period a slightly larger number of new organizations was born. Not governments but other IGOs spawned most of the new offspring. Wealthy democratic countries increased their IGO memberships while poor unstable countries increasingly dropped out. |
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