By introducing a heterogeneous vision of the Bank staff, Moloney shows the force and relevance of internal debates in the public sector...Moloney offers a thorough and well-researched view of the PSM and PSG sectors of the World Bank over thirty-two years. She underlines how international bureaucrats advocate for policy change and how they can do so depending on their authority and power...[and] offers a complex and dense analysis of bureaucratic politics within one of the largest global bureaucracies. This book represents a rich resource for scholars interested in understanding how and when internal actors shape policies, and under what constraints they do so.
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.