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Overview"Who Matters at the World Bank explores ""who matters"" in a 32-year history (1980-2012) of policy change within the World Bank's public sector management and public sector governance agenda, and is anchored within the public administration discipline and its understanding of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics, and stakeholder influences. In response to constructivist scholars' concerns about politics and the organizational culture of international civil servants within international organizations, Kim Moloney uses stakeholder theory and a bureaucratic politics approach to suggest the normality of politics, policy debate, and policy evolution. The book also highlights how for 21 of those 32 years it was not external stakeholders but the international civil servants of the World Bank who most influenced, led, developed, and institutionalized this sector's agenda. In so doing, the book explains how one sector of the Bank's work rose, against the odds, from being included in just under 3% of approved projects in 1980 to 73% of all projects approved between 1991 and 2012." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kim Moloney (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, College of Public Policy, Hamid Bin Khalifa University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.702kg ISBN: 9780192857729ISBN 10: 019285772 Pages: 362 Publication Date: 19 July 2022 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 Contents"1: The World Bank as an Organization: Peering Inside the Black Box 2: The World Bank as an Organization: Public Administration in International Organization Studies 3: Minimize the State, Free the Market (January 1980 - October 1989) 4: Reforming the Bank's Structure: Lending Incentives and ""Bureaucratic Genocide"" 5: Cold War Ends, Privatization Matters, and ""Good Governance"" Arrives (November 1989 - September 1996) 6: The ""C"" Word Decloaked and the State Matters (October 1996 - December 1999) 7: Two Decades Late: A Public Sector (and Governance) Strategy (January 2000 - December 2003) 8: Becoming the Bank's DNA: Governance and Anti-Corruption (January 2004 - June 2012) 9: Internal Evaluators and External Protestors: Broken, Distorted, or Ineffective? 10: PSM/PSG Sector Emergence, Policy Change, and Who Matters at the World Bank Appendix: How the World Bank Operates Postscript References Index"ReviewsI am very glad to have read this deeply informative work... The methods and use of sources in this book are scrupulous... The richness of the empirical chapters draws one into the internal politicking... an extremely well documented, detailed analysis of how bureaucrats advocate for their preferred policy change within the World Bank... this volume is critical for parsing out when bureaucrats can shape policy and how they are able to do so. Moloney has done a tremendous job in distilling this into a single volume and providing us with theoretical propositions to take into further research on understanding of the drivers of change in IOs. * Susan Park, The Review of International Organizations * The book offers an invaluable resource to help current and future scholars and civil servants navigate the challenges they face in international development work (and the organizations they work with and for). As such, I strongly recommend that all those working on and in development read Who Matters at the World Bank and keep it close at hand. * Matt Andrews, Governance * The book offers an invaluable resource to help current and future scholars and civil servants navigate the challenges they face in international development work (and the organizations they work with and for). As such, I strongly recommend that all those working on and in development read Who Matters at the World Bank and keep it close at hand. * Matt Andrews, Governance * "Moloney's book offers a common ground for IO scholars whose work highlights the importance of either the external or internal actors...a distinctive addition to the current debates...Moloney shows the intellectual ferment existing at the World Bank throughout its history. * Mirek Tobiáš Hošman, Review of Political Economy * I am very glad to have read this deeply informative work... The methods and use of sources in this book are scrupulous... The richness of the empirical chapters draws one into the internal politicking... an extremely well documented, detailed analysis of how bureaucrats advocate for their preferred policy change within the World Bank... this volume is critical for parsing out when bureaucrats can shape policy and how they are able to do so. Moloney has done a tremendous job in distilling this into a single volume and providing us with theoretical propositions to take into further research on understanding of the drivers of change in IOs. * Susan Park, The Review of International Organizations * The book offers an invaluable resource to help current and future scholars and civil servants navigate the challenges they face in international development work (and the organizations they work with and for). As such, I strongly recommend that all those working on and in development read ""Who Matters at the World Bank"" and keep it close at hand. * Matt Andrews, Governance * Who Matters at the World Bank is an extremely well documented, detailed analysis of how bureaucrats advocate for their preferred policy change within the World Bank. * Susan Park, Review of International Organizations *" Author InformationKim 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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