Many authors have argued that International Public Administration can influence policy-making through their expert authority. The article compares de jure and de facto expert authority of IPAs to evaluate their conformity. It comparatively assesses the two kinds of authority for five important IPAs (BIS, FAO, IMF, OECD and World Bank) active in agriculture or financial policy. It shows that, on average, de jure and de facto authority seem to conform. At the same time, it demonstrates that gaps between de jure and de facto authority exist at the level of the IPAs, the policy areas and the IPAs' addressees.
Many international bureaucracies give policy advice to national administrative units. Why is the advice given by some international bureaucracies more influential than the recommendations of others? We argue that targeting advice to member states through national embeddedness and country-tailored research increases the influence of policy advice. Subsequently, we test how these characteristics shape the relative influence of 15 international bureaucracies’ advice in four financial policy areas through a global survey of national administrations from more than 80 countries. Our findings support arguments that global blueprints need to be adapted and translated to become meaningful for country-level work. Points for practitioners National administrations are advised by an increasing number of international bureaucracies, and they cannot listen to all of this advice. Whereas some international bureaucracies give ‘one-size-fits-all’ recommendations to rather diverse countries, others cater their recommendations to the national audience. Investigating financial policy recommendations, we find that national embeddedness and country-tailored advice render international bureaucracies more influential.
De nombreuses organisations internationales donnent des recommandations de politique publique à des administrations nationales. Pourquoi les recommandations de certaines organisations internationales ont-elles plus d’influence que d’autres ? Nous avançons que l’intégration dans le contexte national et l’adaptation de la recherche aux spécificités du pays permettent d’accroître l’influence des recommandations de politique publique. Nous avons donc vérifié comment ces caractéristiques déterminaient l’influence relative des recommandations de quinze organisations internationales, dans quatre domaines de la politique financière, au moyen d’une enquête mondiale menée auprès d’administrations nationales de plus de 80 pays. Nos résultats confirment l’hypothèse selon laquelle les modèles mondiaux doivent être adaptés et traduits pour être utiles à l’échelle des pays. Remarques à l’intention des praticiens Les administrations nationales sont conseillées par un nombre croissant d’organisations internationales, qu’elles ne peuvent pas toutes écouter. Si certaines organisations internationales formulent des recommandations “universelles” à des pays différents, d’autres adaptent leurs recommandations à un public national. En étudiant des recommandations de politique financière, nous avons constaté que l’intégration dans le contexte national et l’adaptation de la recherche aux spécificités du pays permettait aux organisations internationales d’être plus influentes.
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