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6 - Advocacy at UNEP and the WHO: How Expertise and Common Beliefs Shape an Administrative Style

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2020

Louisa Bayerlein
Affiliation:
European University Institute
Christoph Knill
Affiliation:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Yves Steinebach
Affiliation:
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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This chapter is concerned with the WHO and UNEP as examples of advocate–style IPAs. These IPAs share behavioural patterns that have allowed them to establish themselves as ‘advocates’ in the area of environmental and global health matters. Despite their apparent common capability of solving problems of global scale, the two IPAs could hardly be more different when considering only their structural features. We show that this commonality in styles, despite structural dissimilarities, is due to the similarly strong perception of external threats and the comparatively low level of internal challenges. Strong expertise and a common belief system contribute to the formation of an advocacy–orientated administrative style while at the same time, a medium level of perceived external challenges prompts both IPAs to also feature at least some characteristics of a consolidator.

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A Matter of Style?
Organizational Agency in Global Public Policy
, pp. 130 - 157
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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