An Institutional Analysis of Indigenous Participatory Authority in International Institutions : The Cases of American and Canadian Tribal Participation in the Pacific Salmon Commission and the International Pacific Halibut Commission
The role of indigenous groups in global governance is a relatively neglected area of study. As policy actors with claims to sovereign rights, including the right to participate in co-management of natural resources, they represent potentially significant actors in certain areas of global governance, insofar as they are successful in gaining participatory authority within international institutions. This paper attempts to answer the question of how institutional rules configure in such a way as to grant relatively higher levels of participatory authority/sovereignty to indigenous groups. Using the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, I examine the relative participatory authority of indigenous groups from Canada and the United States in the Pacific Salmon Commission (PSC) and International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC). I advance a theoretical model that emphasizes certain classes of rules and norms that either grant or constrain the relative participatory authority of these groups in these particular institutions. Specifically, I argue that the participation is especially impacted by "position", "boundary", "choice", and "aggregation" rules, and that rules at the "constitutional" and "collective-choice" levels, as well as informal norms at the "operational" level act in such a way as to shape the relative participatory power of indigenous groups in institutional settings
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2013
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Authors: | Day, Shane |
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[2013]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Kanada | Canada | Asiatisch-pazifischer Raum | Asia-Pacific region | Indigene Völker | Indigenous peoples | Institutionenökonomik | Institutional economics | Pazifischer Ozean | Pacific Ocean | Ethnische Gruppe | Ethnic group | Internationale Organisation | International organization |
Description of contents: | Abstract [papers.ssrn.com] |
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