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International Organizations under Pressure

Legitimating Global Governance in Challenging Times

By: Klaus Dingwerth,Antonia Witt,Ina Lehmann,Ellen Reichel,Tobias Weise

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International Organizations under Pressure

Legitimating Global Governance in Challenging Times

By: Klaus Dingwerth,Antonia Witt,Ina Lehmann,Ellen Reichel,Tobias Weise

International organizations like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, or the European Union are a defining feature of contemporary world politics. In recent years, many of them have also become heavily politicized. In this book, we examine how the norms and values that underpin the evaluations of international organizations have changed over the past 50 years. Looking at five organizations in depth, we observe two major trends. Taken together, both trends make the legitimation of international organizations more challenging today. First, people-based legitimacy standards are on the rise: international organizations are increasingly asked to demonstrate not only what they do for their member states, but also for the people living in these states. Second, procedural legitimacy standards gain ground: international organizations are increasingly evaluated not only based on what they accomplish, but also based on how they arrive at decisions, manage themselves, or coordinate with other organizations in the field. In sum, the study thus documents how the list of expectations international organizations need to fulfil to count as 'legitimate' has expanded over time. The sources of this expansion are manifold. Among others, they include the politicization of expanded international authority and the rise of non-state actors as new audiences from which international organizations seek legitimacy.

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Oxford University Press

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0192574914

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9780192574916

The Unmaking of Special Rights

Differential Treatment of Developing Countries in Times of Global Power Shifts

By: Klaus Dingwerth,Clara Weinhardt,Julian Eckl,Till Schöfer,Simon Herr

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The Unmaking of Special Rights

Differential Treatment of Developing Countries in Times of Global Power Shifts

By: Klaus Dingwerth,Clara Weinhardt,Julian Eckl,Till Schöfer,Simon Herr

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. In light of the many significant recent changes to the global order, The Unmaking of Special Rights explores an often-forgotten aspect of this arrangement: special rights for developing countries. This book analyzes when and how special rights for developing countries have evolved in the context of global power shifts.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1035325985

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9781035325986

Managing Money and Discord in the UN

Budgeting and Bureaucracy

By: Ronny Patz,Klaus H. Goetz

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Managing Money and Discord in the UN

Budgeting and Bureaucracy

By: Ronny Patz,Klaus H. Goetz

How do international organizations in the United Nations system put together their budgets? What is the role of complex principals - most notably member states - and the complex agents in the bureaucracies of international organizations in budgeting processes? And what does a focus on budgeting tell us about the changing nature of the system of international organizations? This book provides answers to these questions through a detailed examination of budgeting in the UN system. The analysis draws on both quantitative and qualitative observations for a total of 22 UN system organizations and detailed case studies for the United Nations, ILO, UNESCO, and WHO. The findings demonstrate the importance of three key organizational outcomes-- proceduralization, routinization, and budgetary segmentation - as international organizations grapple with managing discord over priorities as a result of complex principal-- agent constellations. Contrary to a common view of international bureaucracies as pathological organizations, core budget routines are mostly successfully maintained. However, principal constellations become more complex, notably through the rise of voluntary contributions and non-state donors; budgetary segmentation advances, in some cases even leading to the setting up of new international organizations; and budgeting and resource mobilization become ever more intertwined. As a consequence, the capacity of international bureaucracies to fulfil their budgeting responsibilities is stretched to the limits and beyond. Transformations in Governance is a major academic book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative politics, international relations, public policy, federalism, and environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of authority from central states to supranational institutions, subnational governments, and public-private networks. It brings together work that advances our understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective, containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high quality by leading and emerging scholars. The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.

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International Organizations under Pressure

International Organizations under Pressure

The Unmaking of Special Rights

The Unmaking of Special Rights

Managing Money and Discord in the UN

Managing Money and Discord in the UN

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