TY  - BOOK
AU  - LENZ Tobias
AU  - SCHMIDTKE Henning
TI  - Agents, audiences and peers: why international organizations diversify their legitimation discourse
PY  - 2023///
KW  - LEGITIMATION DISCOURSE
KW  - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
N2  - This article offers the first comprehensive analysis of what we term normative diversity in IOs' discursive legitimation by drawing on a novel dataset on norm-based justifications in more than 32,000 paragraphs of text published by 28 regional IOs between 1980 and 2019. We show that IOs vary strikingly in this respect: whereas some IOs invoke a narrow set of norms, often focused on economic welfare and functional capability, others engage a wide variety that includes security, national sovereignty, democracy or human rights
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac323
ER  -