Compliance

Question 1

What is the Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference?

Answer 1

One can never see both quantities of causal effect problems at the same time. An international institution either exists or does not, etc.

Question 2

What is a Causal Effect?

Answer 2

A problem where policy makers want to know if one variable (International Institution) has any effect on another (state behaviour)

Question 3

Compliance

Answer 3

is when the actual behaviour of an actor conforms to rules

Question 4

Non-compliance

Answer 4

is when actual behaviour of an actor departs from rules

Question 5

What is the selection problem?

Answer 5

Because international institutions are mostly voluntary, states get to select the content of the rules they wish to be bound by

Question 6

What is observational equivalence?

Answer 6

It’s when two hypotheses of state behaviour has observationally equivalent results

Question 7

What is depth of cooperation?

Answer 7

The extent to which [an institution] requires states to depart from what they would have done in its absence