Making International Institutions Work: The Politics of Performance PDF
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Making International Institutions Work International institutions are essential for tackling many of the most urgent challenges facing the world, from pandemics to humanitarian crises, yet we know little about when they succeed, when they fail, andwhy.Thisbookproposesanewtheoryofinstitutionalperformance and tests it using a diverse array of sources, including the most com- prehensivedatasetonthetopic.Challengingpopularcharacterizations of international institutions as “runaway bureaucracies,” Ranjit Lall argues that the most serious threat to performance comes from the pursuit of narrow political interests by states – paradoxically, the same actors who create and give purpose to institutions. The discreet operationalprocessesthroughwhichinternationalbureaucratscultivate and sustain autonomy vis-à-vis governments, he contends, are critical tomakinginstitutions“work.”Thefindingsenhanceourunderstanding ofinternationalcooperation,publicgoods,andorganizationalbehavior whileofferingpracticallessonstopolicymakers,NGOs,businesses,and citizensinterestedinimprovinginstitutionaleffectiveness. RANJIT LALL is an Associate Professor of International Political Economy and a Fellow of St. John’s College, University of Oxford. HisresearchhasreceivedtheAmericanPoliticalScienceAssociation’s Merze Tate Award and the Center for Effective Global Action’s Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Sciences. He previously workedasaneconomistattheBankofEnglandandaneditorialwriter attheFinancialTimes. Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press Making International Institutions Work The Politics of Performance Ranjit Lall UniversityofOxford Published online by Cambridge University Press ShaftesburyRoad,CambridgeCB28EA,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartofCambridgeUniversityPress& Assessment,adepartmentoftheUniversityofCambridge. WesharetheUniversity’smissiontocontributetosocietythroughthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781009216289 DOI:10.1017/9781009216265 ©RanjitLall2023 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress&Assessment. Firstpublished2023 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Lall,Ranjit,author. Title:Makinginternationalinstitutionswork:thepoliticsofperformance/RanjitLall. Description:Cambridge;NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2023.| Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2022048456(print)|LCCN2022048457(ebook)| ISBN9781009216289(hardback)|ISBN9781009216241(paperback)|ISBN 9781009216265(epub) Subjects:LCSH:Internationalagencies–Evaluation.|Organizational behavior.|Internationalorganization. Classification:LCCJZ4839.L352023(print)|LCCJZ4839(ebook)| DDC658.1/8–dc23/eng/20221230 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2022048456 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2022048457 ISBN978-1-009-21628-9Hardback CambridgeUniversityPress&Assessmenthasnoresponsibilityforthepersistence oraccuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhis publicationanddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwill remain,accurateorappropriate. Published online by Cambridge University Press In memory of Sanjaya Lall Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press Contents ListofFigures pageviii ListofTables x Acknowledgments xii 1 InternationalInstitutionsandthePerformancePuzzle 1 2 ATheoryofInstitutionalPerformance 27 3 LearningfromAssessment:QuantitativeTestson54 Institutions 60 4 PerformingforScraps:ComparingtheFAO,theWFP, andIFAD 99 5 ThePerformanceofLife:ComparingtheWHO, UNAIDS,Gavi,andGFATM 167 6 EffectivebutUnaccountable?AutonomyandthePolitics ofReform 237 7 ThePoliticsofPerformance:Contributionsand Implications 275 AppendixA FormalizingtheArgument 296 AppendixB EmpiricalDetails 301 AppendixC InterviewMethodsandList 320 AppendixD SurveyofInternationalBureaucrats 327 Bibliography 329 Index 370 vii Published online by Cambridge University Press Figures 1.1 Numberofintergovernmentalorganizations,1816–2014 page6 1.2 Combinedmembership,income,andexpendituresofPIIP institutionsovertime 8 1.3 Donorratingsofinstitutionalperformance 10 2.1 Statepreferencesbeforeandafterinstitutionalcreation 35 2.2 Pathwaystovaryingautonomy–performanceequilibria 50 2.3 Relationshipbetweendefactopolicyautonomyand performanceatdifferentpointsintime 51 3.1 Meanscoresonperformanceindices 72 3.2 Summaryinformationonoperationalalliances 77 3.3 GovernancetasksexercisedbyPIIPinstitutions 79 3.4 PredictedvaluesofaverageperformanceindexacrossDe FactoPolicyAutonomyandDeJurePolicyAutonomy 87 3.5 PredictedvaluesofDeFactoPolicyAutonomyacross OperationalAlliancesanddummiesforhard-to-monitortasks 90 3.6 Keysimultaneousequationsresults 93 4.1 Financialtrends:TheFAO,theWFP,andIFAD 112 4.2 Numberofundernourishedandextremelypoorpeoplein theworld,1969–2018 118 4.3 WFPfoodaiddeliveries,1963–2018 133 4.4 NumberandperformanceratingsofassessedIFAD projects,1989–2012 152 5.1 Financialtrends:TheWHO,UNAIDS,Gavi,andGFATM 179 5.2 GlobaldeathsfromAIDS,malaria,andtuberculosis, 1990–2019 186 5.3 ChildrenimmunizedanddeathsavertedwithGavisupport, 2000–2019 223 6.1 AveragevalueofSWAmeasuresinPIIPsample,1960–2018 246 6.2 FrequencyandcumulativedepthofSWAreformsinPIIP institutions 247 viii https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009216265.001 Published online by Cambridge University Press ListofFigures ix 6.3 PredictedvaluesofSWACompositeacrossOperational Alliancesanddummiesforhard-to-monitortasks 256 6.4 PredictedvaluesofaverageperformanceindexacrossSWA Composite 258 6.5 SWAmechanismsandperformance:Keysimultaneous equationsestimates 260 7.1 Performanceanddefactopolicyautonomy:Thecases examined 278 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009216265.001 Published online by Cambridge University Press
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