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OverviewThis volume is devoted to the analysis of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its role in international and national policy making. On its 50th anniversary, the OECD enjoys widely acknowledged international standing. Despite this, it has so far remained a rarely researched and analyzed organization. This book is thus a pioneering work: it fills a long-overdue gap in presenting a theoretically guided and empirically rich analysis of the OECD as a political actor. It explores its role in political processes through various case studies in a variety of policy fields. By conceptualizing the contributions to this volume around the concept of mechanisms of governance, it explores how and to what extent the OECD provides international incentives for national policy making. The volume collects a set of ten contributions on the OECD and its activities in core fields of its commitment as an 'economic organization', such as economic and labor market policy, tax issues, finance or financial crime, but also in complementary fields in which the organization is active today despite its original economic focus, such as education, biotechnology, health, family issues, and migration. The case studies presented in this volume are an interdisciplinary collection from different academic perspectives, including political science, international relations, law, and organization studies. The book provides a current and wide-ranging analysis of this organization including its constraints and opportunities in policy making. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kerstin Martens (, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Bremen) , Anja P. Jakobi (, Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt.)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.70cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.644kg ISBN: 9780199591145ISBN 10: 0199591148 Pages: 310 Publication Date: 02 September 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements by the Editors Angel Gurría: Preface by the OECD Secretary-General 1: Kerstin Martens & Anja P. Jakobi: Introduction: The OECD as an Actor in International Politics 2: Morten Ougaard: The OECD's Global Role: Agenda Setting and Policy Diffusion Part I: Core Areas of OECD Activity 3: Richard Woodward: The OECD and Economic Governance: Invisibility and Impotence? 4: Robert T. Kudrle: Tax Policy in the OECD: Soft Governance Gets Harder 5: Tony Porter: The OECD and Global Finance: The Governance of New Issues: New Actors and New Financial Frontiers 6: Kerstin Jacobsson & Niklas Noaksson: From Deregulation to Flexicurity? The Makeover of the OECD Jobs Strategy 7: Anja P. Jakobi: The OECD and Crime: The Fight Against Corruption and Money Laundering Part II: Complementary Areas of OECD Activities 8: Anja P. Jakobi & Kerstin Martens: Expanding and Intensifying Governance:The OECD in Education Policy 9: Alexandra Kaasch: A New Global Health Actor? The OECD's Careful Guidance of National Health Care Systems 10: Rianne Mahon: Learning, Forgetting, Rediscovering: Producing the OECD's 'New' Family Policy 11: Monique Centrone: The OECD as Ideas Diffuser: The Growth of the Global Biotechnology Industry 12: Janna Teltemann: The Activities of the OECD in International Migration: How to become a Relevant Actor in an Emerging Policy Field 13: Anja P. Jakobi & Kerstin Martens: Conclusion: Findings, Implications and Outlook of OECD Governance 490 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationKerstin Martens is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her research interests include international organizations, soft governance, and education policy. Anja P. Jakobi is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK). Her main research interests are world politics, international organizations and global political change, in particular in the fields of security, crime, education and social policy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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