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A matter of style? : organizational agency in global public policy
Title
A matter of style? : organizational agency in global public policy / Louisa Bayerlein, Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach.
ISBN
9781108836371
1108836372
9781108864671
9781108876261
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020.
Physical Description
xvii, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book was inspired by the idea that in order to better understand international organizations' agency, we need to re-direct our attention from their formal characteristics and exceptional achievements or failures to the ordinary, informal workings of their staff. Much ink has been spilled on international public administrations' role in shaping various extraordinary events and policy outputs. Yet, we can learn a lot about (international) organizations by examining their staffers' actions not in critical moments but in their daily work. Likewise, formal characteristics alone fail to capture the deeper running, less easily quantifiable intricacies of international organizations. There is simply more to international public administrations than single indicators can tell us"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Bayerlein, Louisa, 1991- Matter of style? Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 17, 2020
Series
Cambridge studies in comparative public policy.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Of illusory giants and dwarfs : do international public administrations matter for policy making beyond the nation-state?
Conceptualizing and explaining bureaucratic influence : administrative styles
Observing and explaining administrative styles : from concept to empirical analysis
The IMF and the UNHCR : entrepreneurial administrations with different levels of formal autonomy
The IOM and the FAO as consolidators : struggles of the challenger and the challenged
Advocacy at UNEP and the WHO : how expertise and common beliefs shape an administrative style
NATO and the ILO as servants : the dedicated steward and the saturated dinosaur
Conclusion
real dwarfs, illusory dwarfs, or even giants? International public administrations as actors in global governance.
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