The OECD and Transnational Governance
Published on 29. October 2008
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-7748-1554-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is a much cited but little studied institution, and its role in international governance is poorly understood. Nevertheless, the OECD plays an important role in the emerging structure of global governance. Focusing upon the OECD's core functions, contributors to this volume trace the OECD's history, structure, and role in international governance as well as its function as a "policy ideas generator" and purveyor of "best practices" in a variety of economic and social policy domains.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-1554-3 (9780774815543)
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Persons
Rianne Mahon is Chancellor's Professor and Director of the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, Ottawa. Stephen McBride is a professor and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Rianne Mahon and Stephen McBride
Part 1: The OECD and Transnational Governance
1 From Reconstructing Europe to Constructing Globalization: The OECD in Historical Perspective / Robert Wolfe
2 Role of the OECD in the Orchestration of Global Knowledge Networks / Tony Porter and Michael Webb
3 Inversions without End: The OECD and Global Public Management Reform / Leslie A. Pal
4 Towards Complex Multilateralism? Civil Society and the OECD / Richard Woodward
5 Making Neo-Gramscian Sense of the Development Assistance Committee: Towards an Inclusive Neoliberal World Development Order / Arne Ruckert
Part 2: Governance and Economies
6 The OECD and Foreign Investment Rules: The Global Promotion of Liberalization / Russell Alan Williams
7 The OECD's Local Turn: "Innovative Liberalism" for the Cities? / Neil Bradford
8 Policy Learning? The OECD and Its Jobs Strategy / Stephen McBride, Kathleen McNutt, and Russell Alan Williams
9 "Crafting the Conventional Economic Wisdom": The OECD and the Canadian Policy Process / Andrew Jackson
10 Lost in Translation? OECD Ideas and Danish Labour Market Policy / Holly Grinvalds
Part 3: Governance and the Social
11 The OECD's Guidelines for the Licensing of Genetic Inventions: Policy Learning in Response to the Gene Patenting Controversy / Lisa Drouillard and E. Richard Gold
12 The OECD's Social and Health Policy: Neoliberal Stalking Horse or Balancer of Social and Economic Objectives? / Bob Deacon and Alexandra Kaasch
13 OECD Education Policies and World Hegemony / Kjell Rubenson
14 Babies and Bosses: Gendering the OECD's Social Policy Discourse / Rianne Mahon
Conclusion / Stephen McBride and Rianne Mahon
References
Contributors
\Index
Introduction / Rianne Mahon and Stephen McBride
Part 1: The OECD and Transnational Governance
1 From Reconstructing Europe to Constructing Globalization: The OECD in Historical Perspective / Robert Wolfe
2 Role of the OECD in the Orchestration of Global Knowledge Networks / Tony Porter and Michael Webb
3 Inversions without End: The OECD and Global Public Management Reform / Leslie A. Pal
4 Towards Complex Multilateralism? Civil Society and the OECD / Richard Woodward
5 Making Neo-Gramscian Sense of the Development Assistance Committee: Towards an Inclusive Neoliberal World Development Order / Arne Ruckert
Part 2: Governance and Economies
6 The OECD and Foreign Investment Rules: The Global Promotion of Liberalization / Russell Alan Williams
7 The OECD's Local Turn: "Innovative Liberalism" for the Cities? / Neil Bradford
8 Policy Learning? The OECD and Its Jobs Strategy / Stephen McBride, Kathleen McNutt, and Russell Alan Williams
9 "Crafting the Conventional Economic Wisdom": The OECD and the Canadian Policy Process / Andrew Jackson
10 Lost in Translation? OECD Ideas and Danish Labour Market Policy / Holly Grinvalds
Part 3: Governance and the Social
11 The OECD's Guidelines for the Licensing of Genetic Inventions: Policy Learning in Response to the Gene Patenting Controversy / Lisa Drouillard and E. Richard Gold
12 The OECD's Social and Health Policy: Neoliberal Stalking Horse or Balancer of Social and Economic Objectives? / Bob Deacon and Alexandra Kaasch
13 OECD Education Policies and World Hegemony / Kjell Rubenson
14 Babies and Bosses: Gendering the OECD's Social Policy Discourse / Rianne Mahon
Conclusion / Stephen McBride and Rianne Mahon
References
Contributors
\Index