Date: 2021
Type: Article
How do international bureaucrats affect policy outputs? : studying administrative influence strategies in international organizations
International review of administrative sciences, 2021, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 737-754
EGE, Jörn, BAUER, Michael W., WAGNER, Nora, How do international bureaucrats affect policy outputs? : studying administrative influence strategies in international organizations, International review of administrative sciences, 2021, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 737-754
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/71438
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The article investigates how international public administrations, as corporate actors, influence policymaking within international organizations. Starting from a conception of international organizations as political-administrative systems, we theorize the strategies international bureaucrats may use to affect international organizations’ policies and the conditions under which these strategies vary. Building on a most-likely case design, we use process tracing to study two cases of bureaucratic influence: the influence of the secretariat of the World Health Organization on the “Global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases”; and the influence of the International Labour Office on the “Resolution concerning decent work in global supply chains”. We use interview material gathered from international public administration staff and stakeholders to illustrate varying influence strategies and the conditions under which these strategies are used. The study shows how and when international public administrations exert policy influence, and offers new opportunities to extend the generalizability of public administration theories.
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First published online: 16 March 2021
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/71438
Full-text via DOI: 10.1177/00208523211000109
ISSN: 1461-7226; 0020-8523
Publisher: Sage
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