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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
44
Citations
27325
World Ranking
356
National Ranking
53

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Duncan Snidal is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, development, strategy and management, and public administration.

Their research addresses several main topics, including:

  • International Development and Aid
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies

Snidal's publication record shows contributions to a range of academic journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Regulation & Governance
  • Journal of Peace Research
  • Global Policy
  • The Review of International Organizations

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Snidal are:

  • "Cooperation under autonomy: Building and analyzing the Informal Intergovernmental Organizations 2.0 dataset", 2020, Journal of Peace Research
  • "Informal IGOs as Mediators of Power Shifts", 2020, Global Policy
  • "Beyond opportunism: Intermediary loyalty in regulation and governance", 2021, Regulation & Governance
  • "The power of the "weak" and international organizations", 2024, The Review of International Organizations
  • "International Institutions for Advanced AI", 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Collaborations form an important part of Snidal's research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Karolina M. Milewicz
  • Claire Peacock
  • Felicity Vabulas
  • Kenneth W. Abbott
  • David Levi-Faur

Best Publications

  • Hard and Soft Law in International Governance

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • The Rational Design of International Institutions

    Barbara Koremenos;Charles Lipson;Duncan Snidal

  • Why States Act through Formal International Organizations

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • The Concept of Legalization

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Robert O. Keohane;Andrew Moravcsik;Anne Marie Slaughter

  • The limits of hegemonic stability theory

    Duncan Snidal

  • Relative Gains and the Pattern of International Cooperation.

    Duncan Snidal

  • Coordination versus Prisoners' Dilemma: Implications for International Cooperation and Regimes

    Duncan Snidal

  • Strengthening international regulation through Transnational New Governance : Overcoming the orchestration deficit

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • Rational Deterrence Theory and Comparative Case Studies

    Christopher H. Achen;Duncan Snidal

  • CHAPTER TWO. The Governance Triangle: Regulatory Standards Institutions and the Shadow of the State

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • The governance triangle: Regulatory standards institutions and the shadow of the state

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • The Game Theory of International Politics

    Duncan Snidal

  • International Organizations as Orchestrators

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

  • The Oxford Handbook of International Relations

    Christian Reus-Smit;Duncan Snidal

  • International 'standards' and international governance

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • Rational Choice and International Relations

    Duncan Snidal

  • International regulation without international government: Improving IO performance through orchestration

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • Institutional Choice and Global Commerce

    Joseph Henri Jupille;Walter Mattli;Duncan Snidal

  • The Relative-Gains Problem for International Cooperation

    Joseph Grieco;Robert Powell;Duncan Snidal

  • Organization without delegation: Informal intergovernmental organizations (IIGOs) and the spectrum of intergovernmental arrangements

    Felicity Vabulas;Duncan Snidal

  • Theorizing Regulatory Intermediaries: The RIT Model

    Kenneth W. Abbott;David Levi-faur;Duncan Snidal

  • International Cooperation Among Relative-Gains Maximizers

    Duncan Snidal

  • Rational Design: Looking Back to Move Forward

    Barbara Koremenos;Charles Lipson;Duncan Snidal

  • The Rational Design of International Institutions: The Rational Design of International Institutions

    Barbara Koremenos;Charles Lipson;Duncan Snidal

  • Strengthening international regulation through transnational new governance : overcoming the orchestration deficitthrough Orchestration

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth W. Abbott
Kenneth W. Abbott Arizona State University
Bernhard Zangl
Bernhard Zangl Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Philipp Genschel
Philipp Genschel European University Institute
David Levi-Faur
David Levi-Faur Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Christian Reus-Smit
Christian Reus-Smit University of Melbourne
Andrew Moravcsik
Andrew Moravcsik Princeton University
Robert O. Keohane
Robert O. Keohane Princeton University
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter Princeton University
Werner Güth
Werner Güth Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
John R. Freeman
John R. Freeman University of Minnesota

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