Introduction: The OECD and Policy Transfer: Comparative Case Studies

Pal, Leslie A.

doi:10.1080/13876988.2014.910910

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“…Besides, international organizations also leverage their ability exert pressure and crises countries face to promote policy transfers. For instance, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) uses the demand to help countries achieve economic stability to 'protect and expand their global relevance' (Pal, 2014). Furthermore, the crisis situations countries face are used as opportunities for international organization to enter as prescribe policies that aim to provide quick solutions to problems affected countries face.…”

Section: International Organizationmentioning

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Good Governance, International Organization and Policy Transfer: A Case of Indonesian Bureaucratic Reform Policy

Arwanto

Anggraini²

2022

JKAP (Jurnal Kebijakan dan Administrasi Publik)

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In this paper we discuss the connection between the concept of good governance and bureaucratic reform policy. Improving bureaucracy performance can be achieved by implementing good governance. However, another argument posits the notion that bureaucratic reform can lead the way to achieving good governance. Therefore, this paper assesses the relationship between the concept of good governance and bureaucratic reform in Indonesia. The research was based on content analysis technique that analysed the relevancy of good governance criteria and content of policy document, which were supplemented by interviews. Subsequently policy analysis was done using a policy transfer lens. Research findings showed that good governance influences Indonesian bureaucratic reform policy and international organizations have played significant part in influencing the Indonesian government to adopt good governance.

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Section: International Organizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Good Governance, International Organization and Policy Transfer: A Case of Indonesian Bureaucratic Reform Policy

Arwanto

Anggraini²

2022

JKAP (Jurnal Kebijakan dan Administrasi Publik)

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“…Síðast en ekki síst má nefna krísurnar tvaer, annars vegar fjármálahrunið 2008 og kórónuveirufaraldurinn 2020/2021. Krísur hafa skapað vettvang fyrir nýjar lausnir og alþjóðastofnanir eins og OECD grípa fegins hendi taekifaerið til að bjóða þaer fram, ekki aðeins í þágu ríkja eða alþjóðasamfélagsins, heldur einnig til að viðhalda mikilvaegi sínu og hagsmunum (Pal 2014).…”

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Stefnuyfirfærsla: Áhrif Efnahags- og framfarastofnunarinnar (OECD) á stefnumótun á Íslandi

Matthíasson¹

2021

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International organizations such as the OECD, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank are known for spreading ideas, values and policies around the world. In the 90s academic interest in policy transfer increased significantly and researchers tried to create a framework for the approach, explaining why a policy transfer is taking place, under what circumstances, at what stage, etc. Policy transfer as a method has been studied in great detail in recent years by a number of scholars, although not very much in Iceland. Despite great interest in the method, the approach has been criticized for being too descriptive and theoretically weak. Haven’t officials and politicians copied ideas from each other for centuries? This year, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will be 60 years old. It is therefore timely to study the impact OECD has had on Icelandic public administration after 60 years of partnership. The objective of this analysis is to combine a discussion on OECD’s activities and assess its impact on Icelandic public policy making. The first part of the article discusses the predecessor of the OECD, the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), and how it laid the foundations for how the OECD operates today. Furthermore, the current role and structure of the OECD is discussed as well as the tools it has at its disposal to impact policy making in member states. In the second part, the policy transfer method is examined in detail. The definition of the term is discussed, while an attempt is made to identify who is normally involved in policy transfer etc.? Is policy transfer voluntary or coercive? An attempt is made to frame the main variants of policy transfer and discuss ways to identify whether a policy transfer has occurred. Finally, Iceland’s participation in OECD work is discussed and an attempt is made to analyse data from the OECD’s Programme of Implementation Reports (PIR) to assess the extent to which the Icelandic government is utilizing the organization outputs for shaping policy making.

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“…However in some instances the autonomy and power of agents (foundations and donors) may result in an 'oligarchic diffusion' of selected polices that represent the agenda and preferences of powerful elites and lack democratic accountability (Smith et al, 2014). Other transnational bodies such as the OECD play a more nuanced, mediating role disseminating ideas and working to build consensus on new understandings and practices towards contemporary policy challenges (Theodore and Peck, 2011;Pal, 2014). Such agencies are active in forward thinking around policy ideas and the circulation of policy norms.…”

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Introduction: the centrality of arenas, agents and actions

Baker¹,

Walker²

2019

Public Policy Circulation

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Contemporary policy work is deeply informed by the circulation of policy initiatives and models from other jurisdictions. Sometimes close and at other times distant, the influence of various 'elsewheres' (Allen and Cochrane, 2007) has become a routine feature of the policy process. Researchers from a range of academic disciplines have matched the increased traffic of policy knowledge with a growing body of knowledge that seeks to document and understand it. While political scientists have the longest history of engagement with travelling policy, anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, urban planners and other social scientists have joined the fray in recent years, creating a lively multidisciplinary research effort (Benson and Jordan, 2011; McCann and Ward, 2012). Yet, for the most part, this research effort has been disjointed. Despite having a common interest at their core (the movement of policy), there are largely separate conversations occurring, structured around concepts such as policy diffusion, policy learning, policy transfer and policy mobility. These conversations have 'lived together apart' for some time now, but appear to be converging toward a focus on diverse arenas, agents and actions implicated in the circulation of policy. We have also seen shifts from structure-agency binaries to notions of contextually-embedded agency, from neat, spatially and temporally delimited processes to messy, ongoing processes, and from an exclusive interest in the 'why' of travelling policy to a broader set of research questions regarding the 'how'. In this book we use 'policy circulation' as an expedient umbrella term that signifies this emergent zone of common ground. We intend the notion of policy circulation to be largely agnostic (in ontological, epistemological and methodological terms), but it is inescapably oriented toward the work involved in moving policy and the ongoing nature of such efforts. It provides a loose conceptual and empirical space in which Policy Diffusion Policy diffusion emerged as a distinct area of inquiry in the 1960s, put to the task of studying patterns of intra-national policy adoption in the context of United States federalism. Policy diffusion studies seek to map and explain sequential patterning related to the uptake of 'policy innovations'-defined by Walker (1969, p. 881) as 'a program or policy which is new to the state adopting it'-to understand when and why certain jurisdictions adopt policies from other jurisdictions (see Simmons and Elkins, 2004; Levi-Faur, 2005; Simmons et al., 2006). Although the term 'policy diffusion' is often invoked to describe 'a process through which policy choices in one country affect those made in a second country', Marsh and Sharman (2009, pp. 270-71) argue that those researching policy diffusion more often have in mind 'a process of interdependent policy convergence'. Here, the choices of governments are not just interdependent, whereby 'the choice of a government influences the choices made by others and, conversely, the choice of a governmen...

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Introduction: The OECD and Policy Transfer: Comparative Case Studies

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Good Governance, International Organization and Policy Transfer: A Case of Indonesian Bureaucratic Reform Policy

Good Governance, International Organization and Policy Transfer: A Case of Indonesian Bureaucratic Reform Policy

Stefnuyfirfærsla: Áhrif Efnahags- og framfarastofnunarinnar (OECD) á stefnumótun á Íslandi

Introduction: the centrality of arenas, agents and actions

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