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- A Matter of Style?
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
- A Matter of Style?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conceptualizing and Explaining Bureaucratic Influence: Administrative Styles
- 3 Observing and Explaining Administrative Styles: From Concept to Empirical Analysis
- 4 The IMF and the UNHCR
- 5 The IOM and the FAO as Consolidators: Struggles of the Challenger and the Challenged
- 6 Advocacy at UNEP and the WHO: How Expertise and Common Beliefs Shape an Administrative Style
- 7 NATO and the ILO as Servants: the Dedicated Steward and the Saturated Dinosaur
- 8 Conclusion
- References
- Index
4 - The IMF and the UNHCR
Entrepreneurial Administrations with Different Levels of Formal Autonomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2020
- A Matter of Style?
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
- A Matter of Style?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conceptualizing and Explaining Bureaucratic Influence: Administrative Styles
- 3 Observing and Explaining Administrative Styles: From Concept to Empirical Analysis
- 4 The IMF and the UNHCR
- 5 The IOM and the FAO as Consolidators: Struggles of the Challenger and the Challenged
- 6 Advocacy at UNEP and the WHO: How Expertise and Common Beliefs Shape an Administrative Style
- 7 NATO and the ILO as Servants: the Dedicated Steward and the Saturated Dinosaur
- 8 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses s on the IMF and the UNHCR as two IPAs that display a highly entrepreneurial administrative style. These IPAs share routines that combine strong policy advocacy with institutional consolidation. Taking account of the high differences in formal autonomy between the two IPAs, these similarities in administrative styles are striking. In particular, one might intuitively expect that in view of its limited autonomy the UNHCR should display a servant style. Yet, what these IPAs have in common is the perception of similarly low internal and high external constraints that facilities the emergence of entrepreneurial routines in both.
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- A Matter of Style?Organizational Agency in Global Public Policy, pp. 68 - 97Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020