caa a22 4500 388051345 CHVBK 20180307125054.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1162/002081898550734 doi S0020818398440554 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1162/002081898550734 Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions [Elektronische Daten] Studies of international institutions, organizations, and regimes have consistently appeared in the pages of International Organization. We review the theoretical and empirical work on international institutions and identify promising directions for the institutionalist research program. Early studies of international institutions were rich with empirical insights and often influenced by theoretical developments in other fields of political science, but lacking an overarching analytical framework they failed to produce a coherent body of scholarship. Current efforts to reinvigorate the study of international institutions draw on a new body of theory about domestic institutions. We argue that the assumptions of this new approach to institutions are more appropriate to international studies than those of earlier attempts to transfer theories across levels of analysis. We suggest that the most productive questions for future research will focus on specifying alternative mechanisms by which institutions can influence outcomes and identify particular sets of questions within this agenda that are especially promising. Copyright © The IO Foundation 1998 Martin Lisa L. Simmons Beth A. International Organization Cambridge University Press 52/4(1998), 729-757 0020-8183 52:4<729 1998 52 INO https://doi.org/10.1162/002081898550734 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1162/002081898550734 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Martin Lisa L. NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Simmons Beth A. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Organization Cambridge University Press 52/4(1998), 729-757 0020-8183 52:4<729 1998 52 INO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge