As a result of the spread of International Parliamentary Institutions (IPIs), international organisations face crucial questions of representational design. We introduce a distinction betweencitizen-centredandstate-centredIPIs in international organisations (IO). Drawing on original data, we show that, even though parliaments might seem likely to foster citizen representation in the international realm, they in fact often follow state-centred representational designs. We further find that citizen-centred IPIs are a near exclusive phenomenon of a few, democratic regional integration projects. Given the prevalence of state-centred representational designs, we conclude that IPIs’ potential to represent different cross-border communities, concerns, and conflict lines than intergovernmental IO bodies remains institutionally limited. IPIs are thus unlikely to challenge these bodies in similar ways as often observed in the relationship between the European Parliament and the European Union's Council of Ministers.

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以公民为中心还是以国家为中心？国际议会机构的代表性设计

由于国际议会机构 (IPI) 的普及，国际组织面临着代表性设计的关键问题。我们介绍了两者之间的区别以公民为中心和以国家为中心国际组织 (IO) 中的 IPI。利用原始数据，我们表明，尽管议会似乎有可能在国际领域促进公民代表性，但实际上它们往往遵循以国家为中心的代表性设计。我们进一步发现，以公民为中心的 IPI 几乎是少数民主区域一体化项目的独有现象。鉴于以国家为中心的代表性设计的盛行，我们得出结论，与政府间 IO 机构相比，IPI 代表不同的跨境社区、关注点和冲突线的潜力在制度上仍然有限。因此，IPI 不太可能以与欧洲议会和欧盟部长理事会之间的关系中经常观察到的类似方式挑战这些机构。