ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue explores how institutional reforms are shaped by and feed back into the politics of inequality reproduction. IR has recently begun to more closely study how hierarchies intersect. This article uses the analytical concept of “interlinkages” to grasp how international organisations couple intra-organisational patterns of unequal representation to extra-organisational social hierarchies. It empirically investigates the forms and effects of such interlinkages through a case study of the League of Nations’ Council crisis and reform in 1926. The reform reaffirmed the most prominent interlinkage: the restriction of permanent membership to states recognised as “great powers”. In addition, the reform created two new types of non-permanent seats which changed the pattern of representation of small states. Overall, the case study shows that the interlinkages and their effects were generated by an interplay of formal design and informal understandings both at the level of permanent and non-permanent seats.

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制度改革和不平等再生产的政治：1926 年国际联盟理事会危机的案例

摘要 本期特刊探讨了制度改革如何受到不平等再生产政治的影响和反馈。IR 最近开始更密切地研究层次结构如何相交。本文使用“相互联系”的分析概念来理解国际组织如何将不平等代表的组织内模式与组织外的社会等级相结合。它通过对 1926 年国际联盟理事会危机和改革的案例研究，实证研究了这种相互联系的形式和影响。改革重申了最突出的相互联系：将常任理事国限制为公认的“大国”。此外，改革创造了两种新的非常任席位，改变了小国的代表格局。