TY - JOUR
KW - intangible heritage
KW - Japan
KW - France
KW - UNESCO
KW - Europe
KW - East Asia
KW - Cultural Governance
KW - Domestic Cultural Institutions
KW - Domestic Impact of International Institutional Developments
KW - Germany
KW - Historical Institutionalism
KW - ICH Convention
KW - International Change
AU - Christina Maags
AU - Ioan Trifu
AB - Domestic 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.
BT - Politics and Policy
DA - apr
DO - 10.1111/polp.12296
LA - English
M1 - 2
N1 - Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
N2 - Domestic 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.
PY - 2019
SP - 326
EP - 380
T2 - Politics and Policy
TI - When East Meets West: International Change and Its Effects on Domestic Cultural Institutions
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85063011976&doi=10.1111%2fpolp.12296&partnerID=40&md5=1f5e2d567aa31d3cb5a81ec33ef737a9
VL - 47
SN - 15555623 (ISSN)
ER -