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This project creates and introduces a new dataset on transnational public-private governance initiatives (TGIs) in world politics. TGIs are institutions in which states and/or intergovernmental organizations cooperate with business and civil society actors to govern global problems. They have flourished since the late 1990s and, today, govern a broad range of global policy domains, including environmental protection, human rights, health, trade, finance, and security. Yet, existing research lacks the data necessary to map this phenomenon and its variation along dimensions, such as issue areas, governance functions, participation, and institutional design. The Transnational Public-Private Governance Initiatives in World Politics Data is designed for this purpose. It contains detailed information on the scope, functions, membership, and institutional design of 636 TGIs created between 1885 and 2017.

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COW seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations. Key principles of the project include a commitment to standard scientific principles of replication, data reliability, documentation, review, and the transparency of data collection procedures. More specifically, we are committed to the free public release of data sets to the research community, to release data in a timely manner after data collection is completed, to provide version numbers for data set and replication tracking, to provide appropriate dataset documentation, and to attempt to update, document, and distribute follow-on versions of datasets where possible.

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What are the factors that lead states and transnational actors to choose between formal intergovernmental organisations, informal intergovernmental organisations and transnational governance networks to structure their interactions and govern global problems? This project examines the factors that lead states and transnational actors to choose between formal intergovernmental organisations, informal intergovernmental organisations and transnational governance networks to structure their interactions and govern global problems. Also of interest to the research team is the interactions between formal and informal institutions. The project highlights the political dimensions of informal governance and argues that distributional conflict and power asymmetries are critical for the selection and design of informal institutions. Furthermore, the project demonstrates that states and transnational actors use informal institutions as a means to project power and influence outcomes according to their particularistic interests.

The Continent of International Law (COIL) dataset is drawn from the United Nations Treaty Series and features a random sample of agreements across the issue areas of economics, environment, human rights and security. It includes both bilateral and multilateral agreements, and also attempts to code the underlying cooperation problems that brought state actors to the negotiating table.

​The current sample of agreements was drawn at a time when the online version of the United Nations Treaty Series featured all of the international agreements published in hard copy volumes through the registration date of December 1986. The second random sample will feature agreements with registration dates from 1987-2006.

The OECD Partnership for Effective International Rule-making offers a voluntary platform to foster collective action among International Organisations and their constituency to promote greater quality, effectiveness and impact of international rules, regardless of their substantive scope. Its objectives include sharing knowledge and experience on international rule-making, fostering dialpogue on shared challenges and on good practices in effective rulemaking of international organizations, and promoting greater equality, effectiveness, and impact of international rules, regardless of their substantive scope. The partnership is cross-sector, and serves a wide variety of organizations involved in international rule-making, notwithstanding their nature or mandate.