Does Bureaucracy Really Matter? The Authority of Intergovernmental Treaty Secretariats in Global Environmental Politics

Bauer, Steffen

doi:10.1162/glep.2006.6.1.23

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“…While stakeholders in four countries were approached, five came from Germany, four from Mexico and India each and only one from the United States (five respondents did not indicate their country of origin). paper focuses on outcomes of organisational activity since output data have limited empirical significance and environmental impact indicators are difficult to pin down (Bauer 2006;Biermann and Bauer 2005a). Three types of organisational outcomes will be studied:…”

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confidence: 99%

Administrator of global biodiversity: The secretariat of the convention on biological diversity

Siebenhüner

2006

Biodivers Conserv

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The paper presents a case study analysing the effects of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity as an intergovernmental organisation. Within the study, the effects of organisations are measured by their outcome, i.e. the influence on the behaviour of other actors such as national governments. Three forms of outcomes are being distinguished, namely knowledge brokerage and diffusion, capacity building, and negotiation facilitation. In addition, the paper tries to explain the observed effects on the basis of internal and external variables. The CBD Secretariat has been established in 1992 and is now located in Montreal with about 70 employees. As most other secretariats of international conventions, it is the main organiser and facilitator of the convention process. The empirical material shows that the Secretariat has a measurable influence on the intergovernmental cooperative process which can be attributed to the effective internal management processes and the qualities of its leaders. Lacking capacity building functions and highly selective effects with regard to the provision of knowledge are explained by the limited formal autonomy and the structure of the global biodiversity problem.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Administrator of global biodiversity: The secretariat of the convention on biological diversity

Siebenhüner

2006

Biodivers Conserv

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“…For example, with the establishment of the FCTC was the creation of a Convention Secretariat that serves to facilitate the implementation of the agreement's provisions and to coordinate these activities with other United Nations agencies. The establishment of a Secretariat is one example of the institutionalization of mechanisms to support norms proliferation and diffusion from the international to domestic level (Bauer 2006). The propogation of norms can become systematized through this development of legal instruments and the establishment of institutional arrangments specific to the norms that undergird them.…”

Section: International Policy Norms – Tobacco Control and Free Tradementioning

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Evolving Norms at the Intersection of Health and Trade

Drope

Lencucha²

2014

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

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There has been growing tension at the intersection of health and economic policymaking as global governance has increased across sectors. This tension has been particularly evident between tobacco control and trade policy, as the international norms that frame them – particularly the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and the World Trade Organization (WTO) – have continued to institutionalize. Using five case studies of major tobacco-related trade disputes from the principal multilateral system of trade governance – the WTO/General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade – we trace the evolution of these interacting norms over nearly 25 years. Our analytic framework particularly focuses on the actors that advance, defend and challenge these norms. We find that an increasingly broad network, which includes governments, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and members of the epistemic community, is playing a more active role in seeking to resolve these tensions. Moreover, key economic actors are beginning to incorporate health more actively in their messaging and activities. We also demonstrate that the most recent resonant messages reflect a more nuanced integration of the two norms. The tobacco control example has direct relevance to related policy areas, including environment, safety, access to medicines, diet, and alcohol.

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“…However, not much attention has been devoted to the issue of the management and administration of the IEAs. Only recently has scholarly attention been devoted to the institutional arrangements of IEAs, the "global governance architecture" of environmental regimes, and the role of IEA Secretariats as "international bureaucracies" and as "managers of global change" (e.g., Andresen & Hey, 2005;S. Bauer, 2006;Biermann & Siebenhuner, 2009;Churchill & Ulfstein, 2000;Frank, Philipp, Harro van, & Fariborz, 2009;Sandford, 1994).…”

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Assessing the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs)

Seelarbokus

2014

SAGE Open

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It is commonly claimed that assessing the effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) from the environmental problem-solving perspective is challenging because environmental data are not available. However, not much research has been done on the characterization of the nature and causes of such data unavailability. This article analyzes the term "data unavailability" and provides three typologies for data unavailability: (a) "true unavailability," where data collection complexities and resource constraints limit data collection and analysis; (b) "false unavailability," which refers to the existence of relevant data, but failure to report due to various causes; and (c) "external availability," which refers to the existence of relevant data in several organizations and research institutions, but with no established networks for data sharing between such institutions and the IEA institutions. This article discusses the causes for the various types of data unavailability and makes recommendations for promoting data availability.

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Does Bureaucracy Really Matter? The Authority of Intergovernmental Treaty Secretariats in Global Environmental Politics

Cited by 100 publications

References 13 publications

Administrator of global biodiversity: The secretariat of the convention on biological diversity

Administrator of global biodiversity: The secretariat of the convention on biological diversity

Evolving Norms at the Intersection of Health and Trade

Assessing the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements (IEAs)

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