Process effects of multistakeholder institutions: Theory and evidence from the Open Government Partnership

How does membership in transnational multistakeholder institutions shape states' domestic governance? We complement traditional compliance-based approaches by developing a process model, focusing on the independent effects of processes associated with institutional membership, but separate from commitments and compliance themselves. These can be driven iterative participatory features, which are increasingly prevalent global governance. apply this model to Open Government Partnership (OGP), initiative nearly 80 member countries, featuring highly flexible weak enforcement. Although have generally been limited, compliance-focused approach alone cannot account for myriad other consequences globally domestically, features membership. demonstrate these at work case study Mexico's OGP contributed spread new norms policy models, political resources opportunities reformers, linkages coalitions.