Policy recommendations of international bureaucracies
- Many international bureaucracies give policy advice to national administrative units. Why is the advice given by some international bureaucracies more influential than the recommendations of others? We argue that targeting advice to member states through national embeddedness and country-tailored research increases the influence of policy advice. Subsequently, we test how these characteristics shape the relative influence of 15 international bureaucracies' advice in four financial policy areas through a global survey of national administrations from more than 80 countries. Our findings support arguments that global blueprints need to be adapted and translated to become meaningful for country-level work. <br /> Points for practitioners <br /> National administrations are advised by an increasing number of international bureaucracies, and they cannot listen to all of this advice. Whereas some international bureaucracies give 'one-size-fits-all' recommendations to rather diverse countries, others cater their recommendations to theMany international bureaucracies give policy advice to national administrative units. Why is the advice given by some international bureaucracies more influential than the recommendations of others? We argue that targeting advice to member states through national embeddedness and country-tailored research increases the influence of policy advice. Subsequently, we test how these characteristics shape the relative influence of 15 international bureaucracies' advice in four financial policy areas through a global survey of national administrations from more than 80 countries. Our findings support arguments that global blueprints need to be adapted and translated to become meaningful for country-level work. <br /> Points for practitioners <br /> National administrations are advised by an increasing number of international bureaucracies, and they cannot listen to all of this advice. Whereas some international bureaucracies give 'one-size-fits-all' recommendations to rather diverse countries, others cater their recommendations to the national audience. Investigating financial policy recommendations, we find that national embeddedness and country-tailored advice render international bureaucracies more influential.…
| Author details: | Per-Olof BuschORCiDGND, Hauke FeilORCiDGND, Mirko Noa HeinzelORCiDGND, Jana HeroldORCiDGND, Mathies Kempken, Andrea LieseORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/00208523211013385 |
| ISSN: | 0020-8523 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7226 |
| Title of parent work (English): | International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration |
| Subtitle (English): | the importance of country-specificity |
| Publisher: | Sage Publ. |
| Place of publishing: | Los Angeles, Calif. |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/05/27 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2022/11/21 |
| Tag: | financial policy; international; international administration; multi-level government; organizations; regime complexity |
| Volume: | 87 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Article number: | 00208523211013385 |
| Number of pages: | 19 |
| First page: | 775 |
| Last Page: | 793 |
| Funding institution: | German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the Research Unit International Public Administration (IPA)German Research Foundation (DFG) [LI 1947/4-1] |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
