This book explores when, why, and how regional organizations adopt and design institutions to promote and protect fundamental standards of democracy, human rights, and rule of law in their member states.
Sören Stapel is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His research interests include global and regional governance, norm and policy diffusion, human rights, and overlapping regionalism. He recently published Comparing Regional Organizations (Bristol University Press, 2020, with Diana Panke and Anna Starkmann).
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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Explaining Regional Democracy, Human Rights, and Rule of Law Institutions.- Chapter 3: Patterns of regional democracy, human rights, and rule of law institutions.- Chapter 4: Accounting for variation in the adoption and design of regional democracy, human rights, and rule of law institutions: A spatial econometric approach.- Chapter 5: The Organization of American States: Pioneering the adoption and design of institutions.- Chapter 6: The Organization of African Unity and African Union: Following the design of reference models.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.- Index.