Research Handbook on International Bureaucracies

Edited by Jarle Trondal, Professor, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Norway, and Senior Fellow, Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA

‘This Handbook represents an invaluable resource for students of public administration and international organisations. Bringing together a stellar cast of contributors, it not only provides an overview of the considerable advances in the study of international bureaucracies over the past two decades, but also puts forward research agendas that will inform research in years to come.’

• ContentsPreface xviiPART I INTRODUCTION1 Introduction to the study of international bureaucracies 2Jarle Trondal2 The study of international bureaucracies in global politics: a systematicliterature review 24Steffen Eckhard and Daniel BaumannPART II THEORIZING INTERNATIONAL BUREUACRACIES3 International organization bureaucracies as public bureaucracies 47B. Guy Peters4 Bureaucratic politics 61Tobias Bach5 Public service bargains 77Johan Christensen and Kutsal Yesilkagit6 Theories of public policy and international public administrations 93Christoph Knill and Yves Steinebach7 Institutionalism 108Christopher Ansell8 Organization theory 122Jarle Trondal9 Organizational learning 136Bernd Siebenhünder10 Social constructivism 148Andrea Liese11 Informality in international bureaucracies 162Thomas Kwasi Tieku and Eliasu Yakubu12 Ten attributes of transnational administration 175Kim Moloney and Diane Stone13 Interstitial military organizations and the changing nature of the state:implications for theory and practice 190Jozef Bátora14 Public administration and the transnational transformation: a plea for acosmopolitan perspective 204Michael W. Bauer and Edgar GrandePART III POWER, AUTONOMY AND THE ROBUSTNESS OFINTERNATIONAL BUREAUCRACIES15 Turbulence, robustness and international organizations 220Chris Ansel, Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing and Jarle Trondal16 Autonomy 235Michael W. Bauer and Jörn Ege17 Coordination 248Martin Marcussen and Jarle Trondal18 International public administrations and resourcing 261Klaus H. Goetz and Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir19 Bureaucracies of international secretariats 276Bob Reinalda and Kent J. Kille20 Expertise 290Johan Christensen21 Revisiting the role of expertise in international bureaucracies 302Krystel Wanneau, Kari De Pryck and Vincent Caby22 Promises and challenges of diversity research in the context ofinternational bureaucracies 317Fanny BadachePART IV INSTITUTIONS, POLITICS AND POLICIES23 Comparative approaches on international bureaucracies 332Jarle Trondal24 The European Commission 347Jens Blom-Hansen25 Learning capacity in international organizations: the case of the WorldHealth Organization 361Claire A. Dunlop26 The politics of the UN bureaucracy: influence, representation, and themyth of impartiality 377Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir27 Narrowing the gap: international bureaucracies in the ‘Global South’ 391Thomas Tieku, Stefan Gänzle and Jarle Trondal28 The European Central Bank: beyond the mandate 411Bent Sofus Tranøy and Ingrid Hjertaker29 Agencies, networks and decentralized regional integration in Europe 426Sandra Lavenex and Matis Poussardin30 An international bureaucracy faces reform: the OECD professional staffand institutional evolution 448Rio HowardPART V CONCLUSIONS, REFLECTIONS AND OUTLOOKS31 Exploring methodological approaches to study international publicadministrations 463Nina Kolleck and Johannes Schuster32 The normativity of international bureaucracy 479Christopher Lord33 “As hard as it gets”: the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EuropeanUnion 492Benjamin Leruth, Stefan Gänzle and Jarle Trondal34 Conclusion and outlooks 505Jarle Trondal