Owning Development

Creating Policy Norms in the IMF and the World Bank

Susan Park, Antje Vetterlein (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

306 Seiten

2010
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-19895-0 (ISBN)

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This book analyses the capacity of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to change. Using archival and interview data across nine cases, the authors trace the policy process to examine how, and under what conditions, state and non-state actors trigger norm change within international organizations.

As pillars of the post-1945 international economic system, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are central to global economic policy debates. This book examines policy change at the IMF and the World Bank, providing a constructivist account of how and why they take up ideas and translate them into policy, creating what we call 'policy norms'. The authors compare processes of policy emergence and change and, using archival and interview data, analyse nine policy areas including gender, debt relief, and tax and pension reform. Each chapter traces the policy norm process in order to shed light on the main sources and mechanisms for norm change within international organizations. Owning Development details the strength of these policy norms which emerge, then either stabilize or decline. The book establishes valuable insights into the strength of current development policies propounded by international organizations and the possibility for change.

Susan Park is a Senior Lecturer of International Relations at the University of Sydney. She is the author of World Bank Group Interactions with Environmentalists (2010). Dr Park has published widely on change in international financial institutions.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Owning development: creating policy norms in the IMF and the World Bank Susan Park and Antje Vetterlein; Part II. Norm Emergence: 2. Internal or external norm champions: the IMF and multilateral debt relief Bessma Momani; 3. From three to five: the World Bank's pension reform policy norm Veronika Wodsak and Martin Koch; 4. The strategic social construction of the World Bank's gender and development policy norm Catherine Weaver; Part III. Norm Stabilization: 5. Lacking ownership: the IMF and its engagement with social development as a policy norm Antje Vetterlein; 6. Stabilizing global monetary norms: the IMF and current account convertibility André Broome; 7. Bitter pills to swallow: legitimacy gaps and social recognition of the IMF tax policy norm in East Asia Leonard Seabrooke; Part IV. Norm Subsiding: 8. The IMF and capital account liberalization: a case of failed norm institutionalization Ralf J. Leiteritz and Manuela Moschella; 9. The World Bank's global safeguard policy norm? Susan Park; 10. The new public management policy norm on the ground: a comparative analysis of the World Bank's experience in Chile and Argentina Martin Lardone; Part V. Conclusion: 11. Do policy norms reconstitute global development? Susan Park and Antje Vetterlein.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.10.2010
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	630 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-521-19895-X / 052119895X
ISBN-13	978-0-521-19895-0 / 9780521198950
Zustand	Neuware