Partners or pawns?: The impact of elite decision-making and epistemic communities in global information policy on developing countries and transnational civil society

Cogburn, Derrick L.

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“…While the Basic Agreement on Telecommunications brought together developed and developing countries to foster liberal market reforms in this key global sector, there was there was no follow‐up renegotiation of the Basic Agreement on Telecommunications (Drake & Wilson, ). Cogburn (), for example, analyzed whether elites in developing countries that negotiated these global Internet rules were “partners or pawns.” Countries continued to be polarized in demands for a separate World Summit for Information Society (WSIS) as opposed to a unified framework within the WTO. As recent as December 2013 countries around the world struggled to build global consensus for the regulation of telecommunications, the Internet, and information communications technology (Take, )…”

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Globalization, International Organizations, and Telecommunications

Rodine-Hardy

2015

Review of Policy Research

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Since the 1990s over 158 countries established pro-market reforms in telecommunications-a fast pace for such a drastic change. For example, Sweden and Botswana, two nations vastly different across multiple dimensions, both liberalized their telecom sectors. Why did so many countries adopt liberal reforms in such a short period of time? Conventional wisdom highlights the role of global markets and technology, powerful states, global diffusion, and domestic politics. I argue that contrary to these claims, diffusion through key international organizations is the critical and overlooked factor in explaining rapid global convergence of pro-market telecom reforms. Using an original dataset for 189 countries between 1970 and 2003 and event history analysis, I demonstrate that membership in key liberal trading organizations, especially the WTO and the OECD, increases the likelihood that countries will adopt liberal pro-market reforms in telecommunications. These results speak directly to current public policy debates about the reregulation of global markets and bridges the literatures of policy diffusion, institutional design, and regulatory regimes.

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Globalization, International Organizations, and Telecommunications

Rodine-Hardy

2015

Review of Policy Research

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“…This is also a prerequisite for reaching consensus over a set of policy ideas. Policy actors involved in the process of adoption are often seen as forming epistemic communities, which act on the basis of the normative and causal beliefs inherent in the new policy discourses (see Haas 1992;Schmidt 2002;Cogburn 2005). 40 Furthermore, the use of new policy discourses and political concepts facilitates institutional changes (Schmidt 2008(Schmidt , 2002Skinner 1999).…”

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Government Transparency

Erkkilä

2012

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Organizations are the building blocks of governments. The role of organizations, formal and informal, is most readily apparent in public bureaucracy, but all the institutions of the public sector are composed of organizations, or have some organizational characteristics that affect their performance. Therefore, if scholars want to understand how governments work, a very good place to start is at the level of the organizations involved in delivering services. Likewise, if practitioners want to understand how to be effective in the public sector, they would be well-advised to consider examining the role of organizations and how to make the organizations more effective.This series will publish research-based books concerned with organizations in the public sector and will cover such issues as: the autonomy of public sector organizations, networks and network analysis, bureaucratic politics, organizational change and leadership, and methodology for studying organizations.

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“…13 Derrick Cogburn suggests a struggle between G8 interests and the human development community, both of which convene conferences to build legitimacy for their policy goals. In Cogburn's analysis, developing countries are pawns, not partners.…”

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Sublimity and Solutions: Problematization in ICT for Development Perspectives

Russill¹

2008

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

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Partners or pawns?: The impact of elite decision-making and epistemic communities in global information policy on developing countries and transnational civil society

Cited by 8 publications

References 11 publications

Globalization, International Organizations, and Telecommunications

Globalization, International Organizations, and Telecommunications

Government Transparency

Sublimity and Solutions: Problematization in ICT for Development Perspectives

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