Who matters at the World Bank? : bureaucrats, policy change, and public sector governance / Kim Moloney

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moloney, Kim, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Bank.

Stakeholder management.

Bureaucracy--Economic aspects.

Bureaucracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022

Summary:

This book answers the question, "who matters?" in a 32-year history (1980-2012) of policy change within the World Bank's public sector management and public sector governance agenda. The book is anchored within the public administration discipline and its understanding of bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics, and stakeholder influences. In response to constructivist scholars' concerns about politics and the organizational culture of international civil servants within international organizations, this book uses stakeholder theory and a bureaucratic politics approach to suggest the normality of politics, policy debate, and policy evolution. The book also highlights the fact that for 21 of the 32 years, it was the international civil servants of the World Bank and not external stakeholders who led, developed, and institutionalized this sector's agenda. In doing so, the book explains how one sector of the Bank's work rose, against the odds, from encompassing just under 3 percent of approved projects in 1980 to its inclusion within 73 per cent of all projects approved between 1991 and 2012.

Contents:

1 The World Bank as an Organization

2 The World Bank as an Organization

3 Minimize the State, Free the Market (January 1980 to October 1989)

4 Reforming the Bank's Structure

5 Cold War Ends, Privatization Matters, and "Good Governance" Arrives (November 1989 to September 1996)

6 The "C" Word Decloaked and the State Matters (October 1996 to December 1999)

7 Two Decades Late

8 Becoming The Bank's DNA

9 Internal Evaluators and External NGOs

10 PSM/PSG Sector Emergence, Policy Change, and Who Matters at the World Bank

Other Format:

Print version: Moloney, Kim Who Matters at the World Bank?

ISBN:

0-19-267222-3

0-19-194859-4

0-19-267223-1

OCLC:

1336401662