Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 International Institutions and the Performance Puzzle
- 2 A Theory of Institutional Performance
- 3 Learning from Assessment
- 4 Performing for Scraps
- 5 The Performance of Life
- 6 Effective but Unaccountable?
- 7 The Politics of Performance
- Appendix A Formalizing the Argument
- Appendix B Empirical Details
- Appendix C Interview Methods and List
- Appendix D Survey of International Bureaucrats
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Performing for Scraps
Comparing the FAO, the WFP, and IFAD
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 International Institutions and the Performance Puzzle
- 2 A Theory of Institutional Performance
- 3 Learning from Assessment
- 4 Performing for Scraps
- 5 The Performance of Life
- 6 Effective but Unaccountable?
- 7 The Politics of Performance
- Appendix A Formalizing the Argument
- Appendix B Empirical Details
- Appendix C Interview Methods and List
- Appendix D Survey of International Bureaucrats
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 4 begins the qualitative portion of the empirical examination. I conduct an in-depth comparative case study of the three central pillars of global food security governance: the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). I begin by detailing the matching strategy used to identify these institutions, documenting their similar levels of several possible determinants of performance and policy autonomy. The bulk of the chapter traces how differences in de facto – but not de jure – policy autonomy have set the institutions on divergent performance trajectories: The WFP and IFAD are autonomous and widely recognized as effective, whereas the FAO is state-dominated and notorious for performance problems. Rather than formal design features, I locate the origin of this variation in the institutions’ distinct governance tasks and patterns of operational collaboration with non-state actors. Interviews and archival data gathered during fieldwork at the institutions’ Rome headquarters adduce key pieces of evidence in this process-tracing exercise.
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- Making International Institutions WorkThe Politics of Performance, pp. 99 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023