Regime Effectiveness and the Oslo-Potsdam Solution: A Rejoinder to Oran Young

摘要

The Oslo-Potsdam solution to measuring regime effectiveness has been the subject of a fruitful scholarly exchange in Global Environmental Politics. From our point of view, the exchange has been very rewarding. In this rejoinder, we briefly summarize our own position and identify some remaining issues where our views seem to differ from Oran Young's. First, we are encouraged by Young's evaluation that there are some attractive features about the Oslo-Potsdam solution―in particular that it offers a conceptual framework producing a single effectiveness score bounded between 0 and 1 which permits comparisons across regimes.