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Jumping on the Climate Change Bandwagon? Explaining variation in inter-governmental organisation behaviour Nina Hall Post-Doctoral Fellow, Hertie School of Governance Research Questions Why do international organizations bandwagon on the

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Jumping on the Climate Change Bandwagon?

Explaining variation in inter-governmental organisation behaviour

Nina Hall Post-Doctoral Fellow, Hertie School of Governance

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Research Questions

Why do international organizations bandwagon on the climate change regime? And how can we explain variation in bandwagoning behaviour?

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Structure

Defining Bandwagoning
Climate Change and Bandwagoning
Comparison: UNHCR and IOM
Explaining Bandwagoning
Conclusion

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Defining Bandwagoning

When an IGO strategically links its regime to

another (Jinnah 2011).

Includes: publications of speeches, policy papers
r reports that substantiate a link.
Distinct from cooperation.

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Contributions

Bandwagoning – varies in terms of extent and nature (not binary) Explain variation in bandwagoning

1. Functional organisations more opportunistic
2. Normative organisations more reluctant

Trace how existing organisations are responding to climate change

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Attendance at the UNFCCC

20 40 60 80 100 120 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 Number of IGOs Date of Conference of the Parties (COP)

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Case Study Comparison

UNHCR and IOM had no mandate for climate change displacement Both attended UNFCCC in 1998, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012. Compare: first engagement, staff resourcing, inter-agency work, operations.

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First Engagement

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Staff Resourcing

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Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

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Operations

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1. Statist Accounts

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2. Substantive

Issue-Linkage

A real, or perceived to be real, causal relationship between two issue-areas (Betts 2010).

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3. Resource Dependency

Theory

IOs seek tangible and intangible resources to survive (Bierman

2009; Gest and Grigorescu 2011).

Bandwagon to:

Tap new financial resources (Axelrod 2011)
Access expertise in a new issue (Jinnah 2011)
Increase organisational relevance (Conliffe 2011)

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Organizational Type and Bandwagoning

IGO Type Defining Characteristic Case Study Functional No mandate to promote norms or supervise law. IOM: bandwagoned to a greater extent Normative Mandate to supervise international law. UNHCR: more reluctant to bandwagon

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Conclusion

Overall inter-governmental organisations have

increasingly bandwagoned on climate change

Variation in extent of bandwagoning – UNHCR
vs. IOM
Organisational type explains this variation

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Limitations and Next Steps

Generalisability – hypothesis generating, need to examine other cases. Relationship between bandwagoning and regime complexity and fragmentation Normative and policy implications – when is bandwagoning good?