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The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Politics of Conditional Lending

By: James Raymond Vreeland

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Politics of Conditional Lending

By: James Raymond Vreeland

This is a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies. Where did the IMF come from? What does it do? Why do so many governments participate in its programs and what are their effects? How can we best reform this key global institution? These are some of the key questions addressed. In our age of thinking global, the IMF is a crucial institution and central to understanding international relations and current affairs. Founded in the aftermath of the Second World War, its basic purposes were to facilitate world trade and promote national prosperity. The founders hoped that never again would the world experience the trade policies that led up to the Great Depression. This book outlines and questions these targets and assesses actual achievements. It also details how despite originally focusing on Europe, the Fund has gradually shifted to involvement with poorer developing countries, but to what ends and with how much success? This study both poses and tackles the tough questions facing our global community today.

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1134189524

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The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council

Money and Influence

By: James Raymond Vreeland,Axel Dreher

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The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council

Money and Influence

By: James Raymond Vreeland,Axel Dreher

This book investigates the ways governments trade money for favors at the United Nations Security Council.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Politics of Conditional Lending

By: James Raymond Vreeland

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Politics of Conditional Lending

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Information, Democracy, and Autocracy

Economic Transparency and Political (In)Stability

By: James R. Hollyer,B. Peter Rosendorff,James Raymond Vreeland

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Information, Democracy, and Autocracy

Economic Transparency and Political (In)Stability

By: James R. Hollyer,B. Peter Rosendorff,James Raymond Vreeland

Advocates for economic development often call for greater transparency. But what does transparency really mean? What are its consequences? This breakthrough book demonstrates how information impacts major political phenomena, including mass protest, the survival of dictatorships, democratic stability, as well as economic performance. The book introduces a new measure of a specific facet of transparency: the dissemination of economic data. Analysis shows that democracies make economic data more available than do similarly developed autocracies. Transparency attracts investment and makes democracies more resilient to breakdown. But transparency has a dubious consequence under autocracy: political instability. Mass-unrest becomes more likely, and transparency can facilitate democratic transition - but most often a new despotic regime displaces the old. Autocratic leaders may also turn these threats to their advantage, using the risk of mass-unrest that transparency portends to unify the ruling elite. Policy-makers must recognize the trade-offs transparency entails.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108356338

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Globalization and the Nation State

The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank

By: Stephen Kosack,Gustav Ranis,James Vreeland

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Globalization and the Nation State

The Impact of the IMF and the World Bank

By: Stephen Kosack,Gustav Ranis,James Vreeland

This book brings together an international team of contributors to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programs. Contributors include Stephen Coate, Stephen Morris, Ravi Kanbur and Allen Drazen.

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1135993882

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Symbolic Management

Governance, Strategy, and Institutions

By: James Westphal,Sun Hyun Park

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Symbolic Management

Governance, Strategy, and Institutions

By: James Westphal,Sun Hyun Park

The theory of symbolic management reveals a pervasive pattern of 'symbolic decoupling' - a separation between appearances and reality - at every level of the governance system. At each level the processes of governance are less efficient or effective than they appear; from interpersonal relations within organizations such as those between CEOs and directors, top managers and lower-level employees, to relations between firm leaders and external stakeholders such as journalists and security analysts. There is even a separation between appearances and reality at the level of the governance system itself. In this book, James Westphal and Sun Hyun Park develop symbolic management into a major theoretical perspective on governance. Not only does symbolic management provide a compelling behavioral alternative to economic perspectives such as agency theory, but it subsumes economic theory. Agency theory is reconceived as a historically contingent institutional logic that became taken for granted among corporate stakeholders for a period of time and eventually replaced by a new logic of governance. Through a body of extensive empirical research Westphal and Park demonstrate how the symbolic management activities of firm leaders have contributed to this historical shift in prevailing logics of governance, and present a warning to regulators, investors, and the general public.

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Oxford University Press

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0192509918

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The IMF and Economic Development

By: James Raymond Vreeland

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The IMF and Economic Development

By: James Raymond Vreeland

Why do governments turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and with what effects? This book argues that governments enter IMF programs for economic and political reasons, and finds that the effects are negative on economic growth and income distribution. By bringing in the IMF, governments gain political leverage - via conditionality - to push through unpopular policies. Note that if governments desiring conditions are more likely to participate, estimating program effects is not straightforward: one must control for the potentially unobserved political determinants of selection. This book addresses the selection problem using a dynamic bivariate version of the Heckman model analyzing cross-national time-series data. The main finding is that the negative effects of IMF programs on economic growth are mitigated for certain constituencies since programs also have distributional consequences. But IMF programs doubly hurt the least well off in society: they lower growth and shift the income distribution upward.

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1107320291

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The Idea of World Government

From Ancient Times to the Twenty-first Century

By: James A. Yunker

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The Idea of World Government

From Ancient Times to the Twenty-first Century

By: James A. Yunker

There is much discussion in contemporary international relations about global governance but where did this idea originate, what are its intellectual antecedents and does it have a realistic future? This book is a concise yet comprehensive account of the intellectual history of world government up to the present day.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136794379

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection

By: Alexander Betts,Gil Loescher,James Milner

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection

By: Alexander Betts,Gil Loescher,James Milner

This revised and expanded second edition of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continues to offer a concise and comprehensive introduction to both the world of refugees and the organizations that protect and assist them. This updated edition also includes: up to date coverage of the UNHCR’s most recent history and policy developments evaluation of new thinking on issues such as working in UN integrated operations and within the UN peacebuilding commission assessment of the UNHCR’s record of working for IDP’s (internally displaced persons) discussion of the politics of protection and its implications for the work of the UNHCR outline of the new challenges for the agency including environmental refugees, victims of natural disasters and survival migrants. Written by experts in the field, this is one of the very few books to trace the relationship between state interests, global politics, and the work of the UNHCR. This book will appeal to students, scholars, practitioners, and readers with an interest in international relations.

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1136509070

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Global Think Tanks

Policy Networks and Governance

By: James G. McGann

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Global Think Tanks

Policy Networks and Governance

By: James G. McGann

Global Think Tanks provides a clear description of and context for the global proliferation of think tanks. Whilst these institutions are still relatively new players in global and national politics, they are becoming a significant source of strength in an increasingly transnational and less Western-led world. This work presents an important guide to the factors contributing to the proliferation of think tanks, the present nature of this proliferation, and the future of think tanks at the global, regional, and national level. The book: identifies the forces driving these phenomena by addressing some of the historical and current factors that have dominate policy debates around the world attempts to identify the range of existing global think tanks and a representative group of global public policy networks and conduct detailed profiling of these organizations. extrapolate trends in current think tank research that provide a basis for understanding the impact that think tanks have on policy makers identifies and critique the role of global think tanks and global public policy networks in civil society and analyze the challenges and opportunities facing global think tanks and policy networks. seeks to recommend improvements to think tanks and global public policy networks so that they can continue to contribute to global public policy and serve as a catalyst for civic engagement around the world. Examining the issues that face think tanks on a global scale, this book will be of great interest to all students of international relations and international organizations.

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1136876472

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UNHCR

The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the 21st Century

By: Alexander Betts,Gil Loescher,James Milner

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UNHCR

The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection into the 21st Century

By: Alexander Betts,Gil Loescher,James Milner

This is a concise and comprehensive introduction to both the world of refugees and the UN organization that protects and assists them. Written by experts in the field, this is one of the very few books that trace the relationship between state interests, global politics, and the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR). Looking ahead into the twenty-first century, the authors outline how the changing nature of conflict and displacement poses UNHCR with a new array of challenges and how there exists a fundamental tension between the UN’s human rights agenda of protecting refugees fleeing conflict and persecution and the security, political and economic interests of states around the world. Key topics discussed include: The UNHCR as an actor in world politics since 1950 Refugee definition and protection instruments New challenges to the UNHCR's mandate Institutional strengths and weaknesses Asylum crises in the global North and global South Protracted refugee situations and internally displaced persons Key criticisms and continuing relevance of the UNHCR.

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113414122X

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Finance, Development, and the IMF

By: James M. Boughton,Domenico Lombardi

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Finance, Development, and the IMF

By: James M. Boughton,Domenico Lombardi

This book seeks to provide objective analysis of the role and effectiveness of multilaterals in general and the IMF and World Bank in particular. The IMF is a multilateral financial institution with a mandate to promote financial and macroeconomic stability, cooperative economic policies, and a balanced growth of international trade. More than two fifths of its 185 members are low-income countries and many others have substantial pockets of poverty in their populations. Since economic development and the reduction of poverty are the most important economic challenges that these countries face, how can the IMF best help them? How can the imperative of macroeconomic and financial stability be reconciled with the requirements for sustained economic growth? This volume brings together the research of leading economists, political scientists, and historians to suggest ways for the IMF to address these issues effectively.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019923986X

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Tearing Down Walls

The International Monetary Fund 1990-1999

By: Mr.James M. Boughton

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Tearing Down Walls

The International Monetary Fund 1990-1999

By: Mr.James M. Boughton

This volume--the fifth in a series of histories of the International Monetary Fund--examines the 1990s, a tumultuous decade in which the IMF faced difficult challenges and took on new and expanded roles. Among these were assisting countries that had long operated under central planning to manage transitions toward market economies, helping countries in financial crisis after sudden loss of support from private financial markets, adapting surveillance to reflect the growing acceptance of international standards for economic and financial policies, helping low-income countries grow and begin to eradicate poverty while staying within its mandate as a monetary institution, and providing adequate financial assistance to members in an age of limited official resources. The IMF's successes and setbacks in facing these challenges provide valuable lessons for an uncertain future.

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International Monetary Fund

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1616350849

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Getting to the Rule of Law

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By: James E. Fleming

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Getting to the Rule of Law

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By: James E. Fleming

The rule of law has been celebrated as “an unqualified human good," yet there is considerable disagreement about what the ideal of the rule of law requires. When people clamor for the preservation or extension of the rule of law, are they advocating a substantive conception of the rule of law respecting private property and promoting liberty, a formal conception emphasizing an “inner morality of law,” or a procedural conception stressing the right to be heard by an impartial tribunal and to make arguments about what the law is? When are exertions of executive power “outside the law” justified on the ground that they may be necessary to maintain or restore the conditions for the rule of law in emergency circumstances, such as defending against terrorist attacks? In Getting to the Rule of Law a group of contributors from a variety of disciplines address many of the theoretical legal, political, and moral issues raised by such questions and examine practical applications “on the ground” in the United States and around the world. This timely, interdisciplinary volume examines the ideal of the rule of law, questions when, if ever, executive power “outside the law” is justified to maintain or restore the rule of law, and explores the prospects for and perils of building the rule of law after military interventions.

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NYU Press

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0814728448

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9780814728444

The International Monetary Fund

Politics of Conditional Lending

By: James Raymond Vreeland

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Politics of Conditional Lending

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0415374626

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Transparency, Democracy, and Autocracy

Economic Transparency and Political (In)Stability

By: James R. Hollyer,B. Peter Rosendorff,James Raymond Vreeland

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Transparency, Democracy, and Autocracy

Economic Transparency and Political (In)Stability

By: James R. Hollyer,B. Peter Rosendorff,James Raymond Vreeland

Increasing economic transparency benefits democracy: it helps elections work. Yet under autocracy, transparency contributes to political instability.

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1108420729

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The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council

Money and Influence

By: James Raymond Vreeland,Axel Dreher

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The Political Economy of the United Nations Security Council

Money and Influence

By: James Raymond Vreeland,Axel Dreher

Trades of money for political influence persist at every level of government. Not surprisingly, governments themselves trade money for political support on the international stage. Strange, however, is the tale of this book. For, in this study, legitimacy stands as the central political commodity at stake. The book investigates the ways governments trade money for favors at the United Nations Security Council - the body endowed with the international legal authority to legitimize the use of armed force to maintain or restore peace. With a wealth of quantitative data, the book shows that powerful countries, such as the United States, Japan, and Germany, extend financial favors to the elected members of the Security Council through direct foreign aid and through international organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In return, developing countries serving on the Security Council must deliver their political support ... or face the consequences.

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