2021
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2021.1883721
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Delegation and stewardship in international organizations

Abstract: Im Jahr 1815 wurde in einem der vielen Anhänge zum Schlussdokument des Wiener Kongresses die Zentralkommission für die Rheinschifffahrt gegründet. Ihre Mitglieder waren die Anrainerstaaten des Flusses und ihre Verwaltung bestand aus internationalem Personal. In Anbetracht anderer Errungenschaften des Kongresses schien die Schaffung dieser technischen, regional begrenzten Organisation von geringer Bedeutung zu sein. Und doch markierte sie den Beginn eines neuen Phänomens, das die Art und Weise, wie Weltpolitik … Show more

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“…But there are also relevant differences between domestic and international bureaucracies. Most importantly, the political principal of an international public administrations comprises a collective of member states, which potentially causes idiosyncratic political dynamics between the principal and agent, which have been well documented by a rich literature in international relations (Hawkins et al, 2006; Jankauskas, 2022; Trondal et al, 2010). It is possible that this leads to higher degrees of politicization of IO activities, including evaluation, or more pronounced administrative interests in the evaluation results.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…But there are also relevant differences between domestic and international bureaucracies. Most importantly, the political principal of an international public administrations comprises a collective of member states, which potentially causes idiosyncratic political dynamics between the principal and agent, which have been well documented by a rich literature in international relations (Hawkins et al, 2006; Jankauskas, 2022; Trondal et al, 2010). It is possible that this leads to higher degrees of politicization of IO activities, including evaluation, or more pronounced administrative interests in the evaluation results.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the field of public administration, diverse aspects of the relationship between formal and informal features of organization have been studied, ranging from the interplay between the formal and informal accountability structures (Busuioc and Lodge 2016), and the link between formal discretion and informal behavior of street-level bureaucrats (Lipsky 1980), to the relationship of formal and actual autonomy of regulatory agencies (Jackson 2014; Maggetti 2007). In a similar vein, differentiating between formal and informal features of organizations is also prominent in IGO research (Jankauskas 2022). Martin (2006: 141), for instance, distinguishes "between formal agency, which is the amount of authority states have explicitly delegated to an I[G]O, and informal agency, which is the autonomy an I[G]O has in practice, holding the rules constant.…”
Section: Theoretical Considerations On the Relationship Between Forma...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The relationships between IPAs and their staff on the one hand and member states and their permanent delegations on the other hand remain central themes. For instance, research suggests that in addition to traditional agency relationships, a stewardship model between the IPA and member states that is based on low goal divergence and low information asymmetry may lead to softer exercise of political control (Jankauskas, 2021). Moreover, scholars show how member states can exert unilateral influence on IPAs, thereby theoretically acknowledging member states in IOs as complex principals (Dijkstra, 2015;Urpelainen, 2012).…”
Section: Pa and International Bureaucraciesmentioning
confidence: 99%