International Bureaucracy

This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment. It reflects on the commonalities and differences between national and international administrations and carefully constructs the impact of international administrative tools on policy making. The book shows how the study of international bureaucracies can fertilize interdisciplinary discourse, in particular between International Relations, Comparative Government and Public Administration. The book makes a forceful argument for Public Administration to take on the challenge of internationalization.                                                                                                               

This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of international bureaucracies and their political environment. It reflects on the commonalities and differences between national and international administrations and carefully constructs the impact of international administrative tools on policy making. The book shows how the study of international bureaucracies can fertilize interdisciplinary discourse, in particular between International Relations, Comparative Government and Public Administration. The book makes a forceful argument for Public Administration to take on the challenge of internationalization.                                                                                                               

Chapter 1. A Public Administration Perspective on International Organizations; Michael W. Bauer, Steffen Eckhard, Jörn Ege and Christoph Knill.- Chapter 2. A Matter of Will and Action: The Bureaucratic Autonomy of International Public Administrations; Michael W. Bauer and Jörn Ege.- Chapter 3. Administrative styles of international organizations: Can we find them, do they matter?; Christoph Knill, Jan Enkler, Sylvia Schmidt, Steffen Eckhard and Stephan Grohs.- Chapter 4. Orchestrating (Bio-) Diversity: The secretariat of the Convention of Biological Diversity as an attention-seeking bureaucracy; Helge Jörgens, Nina Kolleck, Barbara Saerbeck, and Mareike Well.- Chapter 5. The authority of international public administrations; Per-Olof Busch and Andrea Liese.- Chapter 6. Changing budgeting administration in international organizations: Budgetary pressures, complex principals and administrative leadership; Ronny Patz and Klaus H. Goetz.- Chapter 7. Multilevel Administration in International and National Contexts; Arthur Benz, Andreas Corcaci and Jan Wolfgang Doser.- Chapter 8. International Public Administrations - A New Type of Bureaucracy? Lessons and Challenges for Public Administration Research; Michael W. Bauer, Steffen Eckhard and Christoph Knill.