Management Reforms in International Organizations

ISBN-13: 9783832925727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 226 str.

Michael W. Bauer; Christoph Knill

Opis

In recent years, international organizations have undergone substantive reforms in terms of their administrative structures and management. This development has so far not been subject to systematic or comparative investigations. With Management Reforms in International Organizations, editors Michael W. Bauer and Christoph Knill open this black box. How can we explain the speed, acceptance, and scope of management reforms in international organizations? How important are Secretary Generals and members states? Do international organizations, often considered as crucial diffusion agents for public management reforms, actually live up to the standards they are promoting? Do management reforms have unintended consequences with regard to the policy output? The book delivers a comprehensive analysis of management reforms in a broad range of different international organizations. Leading scholars in the field analyze the respective reform processes inter alia in the European Commission, the N

O autorze

Dr. Christoph Knill ist Professor für Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft an der Universität Konstanz.
Eva Maria Vögtle ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Policy-Forschung und Verwaltungswissenschaft an der Universität Konstanz.