Administrative styles in the European Commission and the OSCE Secretariat: striking similarities despite different organizational settings

Knill, Christoph; Eckhard, Steffen; Grohs, Stephan

doi:10.1080/13501763.2016.1162832

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“…To the extent that IPA-controlled evaluation enters the process, either ex ante to confirm regulatory need or ex post to allow adjustment or termination, policies could also be influenced along the lines of IPA interests. Such a finding would be in line with IO studies depicting IPAs as autonomous policymaking entrepreneurs Eckhard and Ege, 2016;Ege, 2017;Knill et al, 2016Knill et al, , 2018 as well as studies highlighting in domestic settings the influence of bureaucrats over evaluators (Bjornholt and Larsen, 2014;Leeuw and Furubo, 2008;Weiss, 1993).…”

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“…More precisely, as in the domestic context (Bjornholt and Larsen, 2014;Leeuw and Furubo, 2008;Weiss, 1993;Wildavsky, 1972), bureaucrats within IOs have the potential to be powerful evaluation stakeholders who could use evaluation as a tool to steer principals and what is politically achievable. This finding on bureaucratic dominance over evaluation also reinforces a nascent research on IPAs' influence on IO policymaking Biermann and Siebenhüner, 2009;Eckhard and Ege, 2016;Goetz and Patz, 2017;Hooghe and Marks, 2015;2016;Knill et al, 2016Knill et al, , 2018Trondal et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 52%

“…Second, the IO bureaucracy, or IPA, is less constrained by such 'stabilizers' as political party competition or national public administration law and is more likely to develop its own interests (Bauer and Ege, 2017). Previous studies found IPAs to be highly entrepreneurial and innovative in devising new administrative tools and strategies to influence policymaking Biermann and Siebenhüner, 2009;Eckhard and Ege, 2016;Goetz and Patz, 2017;Hooghe and Marks, 2015;Jörgens et al, 2016;Knill et al, 2016Knill et al, , 2018Trondal et al, 2010). This means that evaluation-related interests multiply, making IO stakeholder influence a crucial topic to investigate with potential implications even beyond IOs.…”

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The politics of evaluation in international organizations: A comparative study of stakeholder influence potential

Eckhard

Jankauskas

2018

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While the political nature of evaluation is widely recognized, few attempts exist to conceptualize and compare these politics. This article develops the concept of evaluation stakeholder influence potential, which builds on four political resources for influence (agenda-setting powers, staff and budgetary resources, access to evaluation results, and access to evaluators). These resources are measured for both member states and international public administrations in 24 United Nations organizations. We find that the administration-and not member states-have the largest influence potential in almost two-thirds of the international organizations. Our findings allow classifying them into three groups for which we expect differences in political contestation about evaluation use: two extreme-case groups (either member state or administrative dominance) and a group of contested middle cases. This finding of bureaucratic dominance reinforces literature on bureaucrats as powerful evaluation stakeholders in domestic settings and speaks to nascent research on bureaucratic influence in international organizations.

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The politics of evaluation in international organizations: A comparative study of stakeholder influence potential

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Jankauskas

2018

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“…7 Notwithstanding all these previous aspects, the power of the EU has been partially weakened in recent years by global dynamics. In particular, the 2008 financial crisis involved a change in policy priorities towards economic rather than environmental aspects (Knill, Eckhard, & Grohs, 2016). This implied an acceleration in the process of environmental commodification, with the aim of reaffirming economic growth as an unavoidable objective for international governance (Moore, 2015).…”

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Normalising the ‘alter-Europe’ or going beyond this Europe? Italian environmental movements’ perspectives on Europe, democracy and the ecological crisis

Bertuzzi

2020

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

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Based on 19 interviews with key activists, the paper discusses different visions of Europe and democracy within the Italian environmental archipelago. A clear dichotomy has emerged. On the one hand, institutional ENGOs conduct lobbying activities, adapting to different multilevel political opportunities: their attempt is to reform the current structure of the EU, which also contributes to institutionalise the innovative perspectives of 'another Europe' advanced by the Global Justice Movement in the early 2000s. On the other hand, grassroots groups suggest going 'beyond this Europe', as they are critical of its current geographical borders and political institutions. They normally do so by adopting contentious actions in a domestic dimension. Furthermore, two divergent democratic paradigms can be identified. I propose to call them ecological democracy and green democracy. The latter stands for a conception of the environmental issues as subordinated to, or at least unthinkable outside, the (Western) representative democracy and the gospel of economic growth. Ecological democracy involves a conception of democracy as effective only if based on ecological perspectives, within a vision which stigmatises capitalist economy and the institutions supporting it. These paradigms resonate with the interpretation of the current (ecological) critical juncture as the Anthropocene or as the Capitalocene.

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“…Some scientists believe that the definition of the European legal space as a system of legal norms and standards developed within the framework of European regional organizations (EU, Council of Europe, OSCE), as well as mechanisms of their influence on all components of the national legal systems of European states (including legal awareness, legal culture, law-making and law enforcement) (Knill et al 2016).…”

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Legal globalization and interstate integration as a leading factor of the formation of state security and sovereignty

Voloshin¹,

Krykun²

2018

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social, Economic and Academic Leadership (ICSEAL 2018)

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This paper deals with systematization of theoretically applied research and presents a model of the impact of legal globalization and interstate integration on the formation of international security and ensuring the state sovereignty. The paper considers the definition of categories "legal globalization", "interstate integration", "international security" in modern political legal doctrine and practice. In addition, the methodological approaches and tools for ensuring interstate integration processes for the formation of an effective mechanism for international security, including regional security in Europe, are explored. Moreover, the system of prior (leading) factors influencing the constitutional development of states, the doctrine of modern constitutionalism in the context of the globalization paradigm and the phenomenon of interstate integration are determined. The forms of use of mechanisms for ensuring the functioning and development of the process of internationalization of constitutional law and the constitutionality of international global law and order in the conditions of interstate integration processes are theoretically grounded and empirically modeled. The doctrine of sovereignty and its modern development, the mechanism of provision in the conditions of interstate integration and the formation of the global legal space as a manifestation of supranational sovereignty for the support of collective international security have been explored. Furthermore, the paper analyzes the legal forms and mechanism of ensuring the legal globalization and interstate integration as effective and prior factors of formation of international security and realization of sovereignty of a state.

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Administrative styles in the European Commission and the OSCE Secretariat: striking similarities despite different organizational settings

Cited by 49 publications

References 28 publications

The politics of evaluation in international organizations: A comparative study of stakeholder influence potential

The politics of evaluation in international organizations: A comparative study of stakeholder influence potential

Normalising the ‘alter-Europe’ or going beyond this Europe? Italian environmental movements’ perspectives on Europe, democracy and the ecological crisis

Legal globalization and interstate integration as a leading factor of the formation of state security and sovereignty

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