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Although the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the first International Parliamentary Institution (IPI), 1 was established more than a century ago and the current number of IPIs worldwide is around 70, 2 surprisingly little effort has been made to set up a research agenda to explain and understand their emergence and role in the contemporary world. This is not to say that IPIs are unknown to scholars, but knowledge about these institutions is selective. On the one hand, only a handful of IPIs receive major scholarly attention; this is especially true for the European Parliament. On the other hand, the literature on the majority of other IPIs is scarce and largely descriptive. 3 Most of the existing research on IPIs (with the exception of the European Parliament) focuses on topics related to their history, structure and formal powers. It gives much less attention to the environment in which IPIs operate, to the factors which influence their activities, and to the potential IPIs (may) have to become recognizable players in international affairs.
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IPIs are institutions in which parliamentarians from different countries cooperate, with a view to formulating their interests, adopting decisions, strategies or programs, which they implement or promote, formally and/or informally, in interactions with other actors, by various means such as persuasion, advocacy or institutional pressure. Zlatko Šabič c 2008a, “Building Democratic and Responsible Global Governance: The Role of International Parliamentary Institutions,” Parliamentary Affairs 61, No. 2 (2008), p. 258.
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Šabič, Z. (2013). International Parliamentary Institutions: A Research Agenda. In: Costa, O., Dri, C., Stavridis, S. (eds) Parliamentary Dimensions of Regionalization and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137322746_2
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