02161nas a2200337   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003260000800044653002400052653001000076653001100086653001100097653001100108653001400119653002400133653003500157653006400192653001200256653003200268653001900300653002500319100002000344700001500364245009700379856014300476300001200619490000700631520116500638022002001803       2019                            d  capr10aintangible heritage10aJapan10aFrance10aUNESCO10aEurope10aEast Asia10aCultural Governance10aDomestic Cultural Institutions10aDomestic Impact of International Institutional Developments10aGermany10aHistorical Institutionalism10aICH Convention10aInternational Change1 aChristina Maags1 aIoan Trifu00aWhen East Meets West: International Change and Its Effects on Domestic Cultural Institutions  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063011976&doi=10.1111%2fpolp.12296&partnerID=40&md5=1f5e2d567aa31d3cb5a81ec33ef737a9  a326-3800 v473 aDomestic governments increasingly face the pressure to follow policy developments occurring at the international or supranational level. Yet international laws and policies need to be “translated” to suit domestic political institutions and newly adopted policies may challenge or contradict preexisting domestic policies, institutions, and interests. To explore the domestic impact of international institutional developments, we studied the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and its adoption in four countries (Japan, China, France, and Germany). Using historical institutionalism, this comparative case study sheds light on the effects of the Convention on cultural governance systems in two supposedly different “camps” within the UNESCO: the East and the West. The study argues that it is the interaction and entangled relationship of exogenous and endogenous factors over time, particularly the timing and sequence in which they constrain and facilitate change, which shape actors’ preferences and institutional development at both levels.  a15555623 (ISSN)