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dc.contributor.authorVeggeland, Frode
dc.contributor.authorTrondal, Jarle
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-25T09:24:25Z
dc.date.available2012-10-25T09:24:25Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.issn1893-2347
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/134920
dc.descriptionPresentation on department page: http://www.uia.no/no/portaler/om_universitetet/oekonomi_og_samfunnsvitenskap/statsvitenskap_og_ledelsesfag/ forskning_isl/isl_working_papers_seriesno_NO
dc.description.abstractThis paper challenges widely held claims that international bureaucracies lack the potential to profoundly shape the behaviour, roles and identities of its personnel, and that the role of international civil servants are primarily shaped by where the officials come from. It is argued and empirically suggested that international bureaucracies may possess considerable clout to shape some basic behavioural perceptions among its personnel. The rise of what is phrased as ‘actor-level supranationalism’ among international civil servants suggests that international bureaucracies ‘matter’ and adds value beyond being mere secretariats of member-state governments – thus serving a ‘common good’. Benefiting from a large and novel set of interviews with civil servants from the European Commission, the OECD Secretariat and the WTO Secretariat, ‘actor-level supranationalism’ is shown to rise through internal and external processes of socialisation and adaptation. Actor-level supranationalism is associated with four factors: (i) the length of tenure among international civil servants, (ii) types of prior institutional affiliations of these officials, (iii) size and scope of administrative capacities of international bureaucracies, and (iv) the power and autonomy of international bureaucracies.no_NO
dc.language.isoengno_NO
dc.publisherDepartment of Political Science and Management, University of Agderno_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseriesISL Working Papers;
dc.subjectpolitical scienceno_NO
dc.titleAre international bureaucracies vehicles for the common good?no_NO
dc.typeWorking paperno_NO
dc.source.pagenumber33pno_NO


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