The OECD and transnational governance / edited by Rianne Mahon and Stephen McBride.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mahon, Rianne, 1948-

McBride, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning--International cooperation.

Political planning.

Economic policy--International cooperation.

Economic policy.

Social policy--International cooperation.

Social policy.

International cooperation.

International organization.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is a much cited but little studied institution, and its role in international governance is poorly understood. Nevertheless, the OECD plays an important role in the emerging structure of global governance. Focusing upon the OECD's core functions, contributors to this volume trace the OECD's history, structure, and role in international governance as well as its function as a "policy ideas generator" and purveyor of "best practices" in a variety of economic and social policy domains.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: The OECD and Transnational Governance; 1 From Reconstructing Europe to Constructing Globalization: The OECD in Historical Perspective; 2 Role of the OECD in the Orchestration of Global Knowledge Networks; 3 Inversions without End: The OECD and Global Public Management Reform; 4 Towards Complex Multilateralism? Civil Society and the OECD; 5 Making Neo-Gramscian Sense of the Development Assistance Committee: Towards an Inclusive Neoliberal World Development Order; Part 2: Governance and Economies

6 The OECD and Foreign Investment Rules: The Global Promotion of Liberalization7 The OECD's Local Turn: "Innovative Liberalism" for the Cities?; 8 Policy Learning? The OECD and Its Jobs Strategy; 9 "Crafting the Conventional Economic Wisdom": The OECD and the Canadian Policy Process; 10 Lost in Translation? OECD Ideas and Danish Labour Market Policy; Part 3: Governance and the Social; 11 The OECD Guidelines for the Licensing of Genetic Inventions: Policy Learning in Response to the Gene Patenting Controversy

12 The OECD's Social and Health Policy: Neoliberal Stalking Horse or Balancer of Social and Economic Objectives?13 OECD Education Policies and World Hegemony; 14 Babies and Bosses: Gendering the OECD's Social Policy Discourse; Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-306) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-45729-2

9786612457296

0-7748-1556-6

OCLC:

923446893