Informal and tacitly known rules have not figured prominently in the study of intergovernmental relations. This article deals with a research strategy that includes such rules: regime analysis. It presents an outline of the basic concepts and method used, as well as two case studies, which demonstrate the usefulness of this type of analysis.
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