The Opening Up of International Organizations

Jonas Tallberg is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University. Thomas Sommerer is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. Theresa Squatrito is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. Christer Jönsson is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Lund University.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Explaining transnational access to international organizations: theories and hypotheses; 3. Patterns of formal TNA access in global governance; 4. Explaining formal TNA access to international organizations: a multivariate analysis; 5. TNA access across issue areas: the OSCE and the Commonwealth; 6. TNA access across the policy process: the ADB and the IWC; 7. Conclusion.

'Jonas Tallberg and his co-authors have collected a uniquely refined dataset of transnational access to almost 300 international bodies over time, which forms the backbone for the first systematic explanation of transnational design. This path-breaking study will change our understanding of global governance.' Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and VU University, Amsterdam