Solving the Babylon problem : the formation of transnational political groups in international parliaments

Timcheva, Siyana

Publication type:	Conference paper
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Title:	Solving the Babylon problem : the formation of transnational political groups in international parliaments
Authors:	Timcheva, Siyana
et. al:	No
Conference details:	ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, 27-29 June 2019
Issue Date:	2019
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	320: Politics
Abstract:	While we know a great deal about parliamentary political groups in the national context, their transnational counterparts remain largely unexplored. Yet, more than forty transnational political groups have formed worldwide within eleven international parliamentary institutions. This phenomenon is puzzling since a territorial cleavage rather than a functional one presumably determines the logic of cooperation in the international realm. In the first attempt to analyze transnational political groups systematically, this paper proposes a theory explaining their emergence. By drawing on the legislative studies and institutionalism literatures, three theoretical conjectures are put forward concentrating on the characteristics of the parliament’s member states, emulation from other international parliaments, and the characteristics of the international parliament itself as plausible explanations. The theory is empirically tested with a new original dataset covering more than sixty international parliaments since their creation to present. The results from a logistic regression analysis lend support to the theory and delineate the conditions under which transnational political groups emerge in international parliaments. With the rise of international parliaments and their increased involvement in supranational decision-making over time, it becomes highly important to understand how they organize and the implications thereof.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/28439
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Departement:	School of Management and Law
Organisational Unit:	International Management Institute (IMI)
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Timcheva, S. (2019). Solving the Babylon problem : the formation of transnational political groups in international parliaments. ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments Conference, Leiden, the Netherlands, 27-29 June 2019.

Timcheva, S. (2019) ‘Solving the Babylon problem : the formation of transnational political groups in international parliaments’, in ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, 27-29 June 2019.

S. Timcheva, “Solving the Babylon problem : the formation of transnational political groups in international parliaments,” in ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, 27-29 June 2019, 2019.

TIMCHEVA, Siyana, 2019. Solving the Babylon problem : the formation of transnational political groups in international parliaments. In: ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments Conference, Leiden, The Netherlands, 27-29 June 2019. Conference paper. 2019

Timcheva, Siyana. 2019. “Solving the Babylon Problem : The Formation of Transnational Political Groups in International Parliaments.” Conference paper. In ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments Conference, Leiden, the Netherlands, 27-29 June 2019.

Timcheva, Siyana. “Solving the Babylon Problem : The Formation of Transnational Political Groups in International Parliaments.” ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments Conference, Leiden, the Netherlands, 27-29 June 2019, 2019.