Elgar Companion to the OECD

Edited by Fabrizio De Francesco, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, UK and Claudio M. Radaelli, Professor of Comparative Public Policy, School of Transnational Governance (EUI), Italy

‘The Elgar Companion to the OECD provides a comprehensive scholarly overview of one of our most important, yet relatively understudied, international organisations. The editors, De Francesco and Radaelli, have provided us with a great public good in assembling a stellar cast of contributors to discuss various dimensions of the OECD’s work and politics. This includes the organisation’s claims to expertise, its relationship to other international organisations, how it conducts peer review and fosters benchmarking, and how it draws on a network of regulators. The contributors also provide a range of policy-focused chapters, including on education, environment and taxation, among others. To identify not only how policies are made but received, the book provides a range of cases on the reception of OECD ideas, frames and policies. It also identifies emerging issues, such as cybersecurity and the SDGs, that will prompt the OECD to adapt further. This is an excellent contribution for all those interested in international organisations, the crafting of economic policy and key mechanisms of change in the international political economy.’

• Contents:1 Introduction to the Elgar Companion to the OECD 1Fabrizio De Francesco and Claudio M. RadaelliPART I DISCIPLINES2 The historical transformations of the OECD 9Matthieu Leimgruber and Matthias Schmelzer3 International political economy 23Alice Chessé and Amy Verdun4 Corporate consensus and the OECD’s human rights mechanism 37Stefanie Khoury and David Whyte5 The politics of the OECD 50Magdaléna Hadjiisky6 Public management 67Denita Cepiku and Marco AmiciPART II MECHANISMS AND TOOLS OF GOVERNANCE7 The OECD as an international bureaucracy 81Martin Marcussen and Jarle Trondal8 The OECD in the ecosystem of international organization 95Diane Stone9 Peer reviews 105Thomas Conzelmann10 Indicators and benchmarking 116Matthias Kranke11 The network of economic regulators 126Francesca Pia VantaggiatoPART III POLICY SECTORS12 Development assistance and cooperation 137Joren Verschaeve13 Education 146Sotiria Grek and Bob Lingard14 Environment 154Markku Lehtonen15 Regulation 166Fabrizio De Francesco and Claudio M. Radaelli16 International taxation 173Fayçal Ait Abdellouhab and Claudio M. Radaelli17 Economic policy 184George PapaconstantinouPART IV THE IMPACT ON DOMESTIC POLICIES18 Australia: Varieties of policy impacts 198Peter Carroll19 Mexico: From the diffusion of ideas to the making of policy changes 208Fabiola Perales-Fernández and Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna20 Brazil: Cooperation, policy transfer and resistance 220Osmany Porto de Oliveira21 Kazakhstan: In search of international legitimacy 231Colin Knox and Saltanat JanenovaPART V EMERGING ISSUES22 Public governance 245Leslie A. Pal23 Good governance 255B. Guy Peters24 Cyber security 265Anthony J. S. Craig25 Sustainable development 278Ulrike ZeigermannIndex