Unpacking international organisations : the dynamics of compound bureaucracies
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Unpacking international organisations : the dynamics of compound bureaucracies
(European policy research unit series)
Manchester University Press, 2010
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
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  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [210]-224
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book introduces international bureaucracy as a key field of study for public administration and also rediscovers it as an essential ingredient in the study of international organisations. To what extent, how and why do international bureaucracies challenge and supplement the inherent Westphalian intergovernmental order based on territorial sovereignty? To what extent, how and why do international bureaucracies supplement the existing international intergovernmental order with a multi-dimensional international order subjugated by a compound set of decision-making dynamics?
International bureaucracies constitute a distinct and increasingly important feature of public administration studies. However, the role of international bureaucracies has been largely neglected in most social science sub-disciplines. This book takes a first step into a third generation of international organisation (IO) studies.
It will be of immense value to academics in politics and international relations as well as practitioners in public administration in domestic governments and international organizations. -- .
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of authors
Foreword
1. The bureaucracy of international organisations
2. On the principles of organisation of international bureaucracies
Section I
3. The European Commission
4. The OECD Secretariat
5. The WTO Secretariat
Section II
6. Departmental dynamics in international bureaucracies
7. Supranational dynamics in international bureaucracies
8. Epistemic dynamics in international bureaucracies
9. Intergovernmental dynamics in international bureaucracies
Conclusions
10. Complexity and stability in international bureaucracies
References
Appendix
Index -- .
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