Who Matters at the World Bank?

Bureaucrats, Policy Change, and Public Sector Governance
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-285772-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 744 g

Who Matters at the World Bank explores "who matters" in a 32-year history (1980-2012) of policy change within the World Bank's public sector management and public sector governance agenda, and is anchored within the public administration discipline and its understanding of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics, and stakeholder influences. In response to constructivist scholars' concerns about politics and the organizational culture of international civil servants within international organizations, Kim Moloney uses stakeholder theory and a bureaucratic politics approach to suggest the normality of politics, policy debate, and policy evolution. The book also highlights how for 21 of those 32 years it was not external stakeholders but the international civil servants of the World Bank who most influenced, led, developed, and institutionalized this sector's agenda. In so doing, the book explains how one sector of the Bank's work rose, against the odds, from being included in just under 3% of approved projects in 1980 to 73% of all projects approved between 1991 and 2012.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moloney, Kim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Bankwirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: The World Bank as an Organization: Peering Inside the Black Box

- 2: The World Bank as an Organization: Public Administration in International Organization Studies

- 3: Minimize the State, Free the Market (January 1980 - October 1989)

- 4: Reforming the Bank's Structure: Lending Incentives and "Bureaucratic Genocide"

- 5: Cold War Ends, Privatization Matters, and "Good Governance" Arrives (November 1989 - September 1996)

- 6: The "C" Word Decloaked and the State Matters (October 1996 - December 1999)

- 7: Two Decades Late: A Public Sector (and Governance) Strategy (January 2000 - December 2003)

- 8: Becoming the Bank's DNA: Governance and Anti-Corruption (January 2004 - June 2012)

- 9: Internal Evaluators and External Protestors: Broken, Distorted, or Ineffective?

- 10: PSM/PSG Sector Emergence, Policy Change, and Who Matters at the World Bank

- Appendix: How the World Bank Operates

- Postscript

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kim Moloney is an Assistant Professor in the College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration (with Diane Stone; OUP 2019) and from 2019-2021 was the elected chair of the Section on International and Comparative Administration within the American Society of Public Administration.