Effective horizon management in transnational administration: Bespoke and <scp>box‐ticking</scp> consultancies in <scp>anti‐money</scp> laundering

Tsingou, Eleni

doi:10.1111/padm.12799

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“…On international public administration, the symposium offers cases on anti-money laundering, cybersecurity, and benchmarking. On anti-money laundering (AML), Tsingou (2022) shows how standards from the Financial Action Task Force have been widely adopted even when they are not legally binding and their efficacy is seriously questioned. She details how consultants are working with public administrations to improve how countries are assessed in peer-based Mutual Evaluations.…”

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“…Pressures on international public administrations to conform to stakeholder demands have also expanded the use of consultancies, especially within the United Nations system (Stone & Ladi, 2015; Badache, 2020; see Broome, 2022 in this symposium). Many transnational governance initiatives also rely on consultancies to direct how policies are implemented (Seabrooke, 2015; Kentikelenis & Seabrooke, 2021; see also the contributions from Tsingou, 2022 and Willers, 2022 in this symposium).…”

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Consultancies in public administration

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Public Administration

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Public administrations increasingly rely on consultancies to acquire policy knowledge, assess stakeholder dynamics, and evaluate governance systems. In this symposium, we explore the drivers and effects of this trend. Consultants offer advisory services, articulate governance trends, provide technical and programming expertise, as well as evaluation functions. Historically consultancies were introduced to public administrations to prevent market dominance and to respond to demands for specialized professional services.This relationship morphed into an expanded global market for a wide range of consultancy services that national and international administrations purchase. We explore how consultancies and public administrations interact through a discussion of task-setting based on recognition of: (i) what party can make claims to support a public ethos, (ii) what forms of expertise are most relevant for solving the problem, and (iii) status in who can best tackle uncertainties. | INTRODUCTIONThe task of governing through public administration belongs to governments and the organizations to which they have delegated authority. In recent decades, national and international public administrations have taken on more advice from consultancies in how their core tasks are defined and implemented. This includes not only specialist and technical fixes for operational issues, but also counsel on what stakeholders and constituencies are relevant, as well as frameworks for policy articulation and evaluation.

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Section: Contributions To This Symposiummentioning

confidence: 99%