Ranjit Lall (University of Oxford)

Making International Institutions Work

The Politics of Performance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

International institutions are essential for tackling urgent challenges facing the world, yet we know little about when and why they succeed or fail. This book develops and systematically tests a new theory of institutional performance, offering fresh insights to students of international cooperation and practical lessons for policymakers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 772g
• ISBN-13: 9781009216289
• ISBN-10: 1009216287
• Artikelnr.: 66133757

Autorenporträt

Ranjit Lall is an Associate Professor of International Political Economy and a Fellow of St. John's College, University of Oxford. His research has received the American Political Science Association's Merze Tate Award and the Center for Effective Global Action's Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Sciences. He previously worked as an economist at the Bank of England and an editorial writer at the Financial Times.

Inhaltsangabe

1. International institutions and the performance puzzle
2. A theory of institutional performance
3. Learning from assessment: quantitative tests on fifty-four institutions
4. Performing for scraps: comparing the FAO, the WFP, and IFAD
5. The performance of life: comparing the WHO, UNAIDS, Gavi, and GFATM
6. Effective but unaccountable?: autonomy and the politics of reform
7. The Politics of performance: contributions and implications: contributions and implications.