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Bureaucratic autonomy of international organizations’ secretariats

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: The contribution advances a theoretical conceptualization of the bureaucratic autonomy of international secretariats and suggests an empirical yardstick for its measurement. The proposed concept of bureaucratic autonomy focuses on administrative structures and provides an indicator-based approximation for the bureaucratic capacities of international organizations in order to systematically reveal variation in intra-organizational potential for autonomous bureaucratic behaviour. The usefulness and limitations of the concept are discussed in light of an empirical examination of 15 international secretariats.

Source: Journal of European Public Policy

DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2016.1162833

Authors: Michael W. Bauer, Jörn Ege

Institutions: German University of Administrative Sciences, German Research Institute for Public Administration

Language: English

Topic: International Relations and Foreign Policy

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funders: Inter-American Development Bank, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft