Who Matters at the World Bank?
Bureaucrats, Policy Change, and Public Sector Governance
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 19 July 2022
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780192857729 |
| ISBN10: | 019285772X |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 362 pages |
| Size: | 240x165x25 mm |
| Weight: | 1 g |
| Language: | English |
| 530 |
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Short description:
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.
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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.
Moloney's book offers a common ground for IO scholars whose work highlights the importance of either the external or internal actors...a distinctive addition to the current debates...Moloney shows the intellectual ferment existing at the World Bank throughout its history.
Moloney's book offers a common ground for IO scholars whose work highlights the importance of either the external or internal actors...a distinctive addition to the current debates...Moloney shows the intellectual ferment existing at the World Bank throughout its history.
Table of Contents:
The World Bank as an Organization: Peering Inside the Black Box
The World Bank as an Organization: Public Administration in International Organization Studies
Minimize the State, Free the Market (January 1980 - October 1989)
Reforming the Bank's Structure: Lending Incentives and "Bureaucratic Genocide"
Cold War Ends, Privatization Matters, and "Good Governance" Arrives (November 1989 - September 1996)
The "C" Word Decloaked and the State Matters (October 1996 - December 1999)
Two Decades Late: A Public Sector (and Governance) Strategy (January 2000 - December 2003)
Becoming the Bank's DNA: Governance and Anti-Corruption (January 2004 - June 2012)
Internal Evaluators and External Protestors: Broken, Distorted, or Ineffective?
PSM/PSG Sector Emergence, Policy Change, and Who Matters at the World Bank
Appendix: How the World Bank Operates
Postscript
References
Index
The World Bank as an Organization: Public Administration in International Organization Studies
Minimize the State, Free the Market (January 1980 - October 1989)
Reforming the Bank's Structure: Lending Incentives and "Bureaucratic Genocide"
Cold War Ends, Privatization Matters, and "Good Governance" Arrives (November 1989 - September 1996)
The "C" Word Decloaked and the State Matters (October 1996 - December 1999)
Two Decades Late: A Public Sector (and Governance) Strategy (January 2000 - December 2003)
Becoming the Bank's DNA: Governance and Anti-Corruption (January 2004 - June 2012)
Internal Evaluators and External Protestors: Broken, Distorted, or Ineffective?
PSM/PSG Sector Emergence, Policy Change, and Who Matters at the World Bank
Appendix: How the World Bank Operates
Postscript
References
Index
