A Revised Theory of Regional Integration

International Organization

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1970, Pages 836-868

  Schmitter, Philippe C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 84972295934     PISSN: 00208183     EISSN: 15315088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0020818300017549     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Ernst B. Haas and Philippe C. Schmitter, “Economics and Differential Patterns of Political Integration: Projections about Unity in Latin America,” International Organization, Autumn 1964 (Vol. 18, No. 4), pp. 705–737.
2. Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Constructing Social Theories (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968), p. 32.
3. Stinchcombe, p. 80
4. This propensity of regional integration to heighten sensitivities to the relative performance of one’s partners might be called “Anderson’s paradox.” See Charles W. Anderson, Politics and Economic Change in Latin America: The Governing of Restless Nations (Princeton, N.J: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1967), p. 61.
5. Philippe C. Schmitter, “La dinamica de con trad icciones y la conduccion de crisis en la integracidn centroamericana,” Revista de la integracion November 1969 (No. 5), pp. 87–151.
6. For example, Karl Deutsch, and others, Political Community and the North Atlantic Area: International Organization in the Light of Historical Experience (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1957); Amitai Etzioni, Political Unification: A Comparative Study of Leaders and Forces (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965)
7. Joyce M. Mitchell and William C. Mitchell, Political Analysis and Public Policy: An Introduction to Political Science (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1969), pp. 135–159, especially pp. 138–139.
8. My emphasis on “sunken costs” in explaining organizational behavior was inspired by Arthur Stinchcombe, pp. 120–125.
9. Philippe C. Schmitter, “Three Neo-Functional Hypotheses about International Integration,’” International Organization, Winter 1969 (Vol. 23, No. 1), pp. 162–164
10. Stinchcombe, pp. 80–82.
11. See pp. 860–868 for additional discussion of possible “motives” underlying this propensity for entropic solutions. For a discussion in the light of case study see my article in Revista de la integration No. 5, pp. 141, 147–148.
12. Schmitter, International Organization, Vol. 23, No. 4, p. 166.
13. Bruce M. Russett, “‘Regional’ Trading Patterns: 1938-1963 International Studies Quarterly, December 1968 (Vol. 12, No. 4), pp. 360–379. For an excellent discussion of the utility of various transactional indicators see Donald Puchala in this volume.
14. Schmitter, International Organization, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 334–336.
15. The research of Lawrence Scheinman is particularly relevant here. See his “Some Preliminary Notes on Bureaucratic Relationships in the European Economic Community International Organization, Autumn 1966 (Vol. 20, No. 4), pp. 750–773.