scholarly journals International Organizations in Global Social Governance

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Social Governance

scholarly journals International Organizations and the Global Social Governance of Pensions

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Martin Heneghan
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Pension Reform ◽  
Organizational Field ◽  
Policy Area ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
Economic Paradigm ◽  
Paradigmatic Change ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe chapter on international organizations (IOs) and the global social governance of pensions analyzes the way in which IOs have competed to shape the pensions discourse. It shows how the organizational field has been shaped by the dominant economic paradigm, which has created space for IOs to operate in the policy area. A paradigmatic change creates the environmental conditions for new IOs to enter the field and compete or cooperate with the existing IOs to shape the discourse. The intrinsic features of each IO operating in the pension reform arena will be shown to determine their approach to influencing the pensions discourse and how they respond to rivals entering the field.

scholarly journals The Architecture of Arguments in Global Social Governance: Examining Populations and Discourses of International Organizations in Social Policies

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-28
Author(s):  
Dennis Niemann ◽  
Kerstin Martens ◽  
Alexandra Kaasch
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Organizational Ecology ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
Soft Governance ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
Influence Behavior

AbstractAs this chapter is the introduction to the book, it lays out in broad strokes the knowledge about the purposes, functions and characteristics of International Organizations (IOs) in general, and their involvement in social policy issues in particular. It then sets out some basic conceptualizations for studying IOs in global social governance before specifying the framework applied for exploring populations and discourses of IOs in global social policies. Complementing liberal and constructivist IR theories, the volume uses organizational ecology and soft governance approaches as heuristic frames for the analyses of different architectures of IO global social governance. ‘Populations’ are identified as the dominant as well as regional IOs active in a specific social policy issue; the concept of ‘discourse’ is understood as the strategic way in which individuals or collective actors frame ideas, and not as a structural understanding of how certain meanings influence behavior.

scholarly journals International Organizations’ Involvement in Youth Unemployment as a Global Policy Field, and the Global Financial Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-56
Author(s):  
Ross Fergusson
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy Field ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

AbstractTo date, global social policy has afforded minimal attention to the ways International Organizations (IOs) have responded to youth unemployment as an important and distinctive policy field. This chapter redresses this gap in the literature by means of a critical analysis of the governance capacities of the key IOs (particularly the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Bank (WB)), toward developing a wider understanding of modes of global social governance. The chapter establishes the historical context of multiple IOs’ engagements in this policy field. It focuses on the evolving relationships between the ILO and the WB and their construction of, and withdrawal from, partnerships that variously facilitated and limited the pursuit of their respective strategies and goals for alleviating youth unemployment. Focusing on the ILO’s and the WB’s policy discourses, the chapter traces the trajectories of joint partnerships that were dissolved, and of externally facing partnerships that better reflect distinctive ILO and WB priorities.

scholarly journals Governing Children’s Rights in Global Social Policy—International Organizations and the Thin Line Between Child Protection and Empowerment

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-162
Author(s):  
Anna Holzscheiter
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Children's Rights ◽  
Children’S Rights ◽  
Thin Line ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
History Of ◽  
Traditional Approaches

AbstractThis chapter locates children’s rights in the context of global social governance. Social policy literature has hitherto neglected the centrality of child protection and children’s rights to many key areas of social governance such as education and healthcare. The chapter traces the history of children’s rights as a distinct sphere in international law from the first recognition of the special status of children, to the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), to the growth of the contemporary complex International Organization (IO) landscape. Children’s rights enjoy growing visibility and relevance and continue to be a cross-cutting issue in international organizations of all kinds, making them a central dimension of global social governance. Nonetheless, the chapter highlights that the growth of the children’s rights agenda has not been without conflict. International norms and measures surrounding children’s rights continue to be challenged and questioned by scholars and practitioners alike. Furthermore, the analysis of children’s rights provides opportunities to reconsider traditional approaches to global social policy.

scholarly journals International Organizations and the Architecture of Arguments in Global Social Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 325-339
Author(s):  
Kerstin Martens ◽  
Dennis Niemann ◽  
Alexandra Kaasch
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
Social Governance ◽  
Soft Governance ◽  
Cognitive Authority ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Birth Characteristics ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThe concluding chapter resumes the arguments made in the introduction to this volume. It summarizes the empirical findings of the individual contributions and highlights prevailing cross-cutting issues and themes. It also depicts further and future avenues of research resulting from this volume. Overall, it becomes evident that International organizations (IOs) have been part of the architecture of arguments in global social governance for a long time. They have been populating diverse social fields in which they more often cooperate or coexist in issue-related or individual regional niches than contest each other. However, they often share a field with other actors, too. IOs have also proven strong in exercising soft governance as the broadcasters of new ideas. Thus, they have cognitive authority over their specific field. However, birth characteristics, such as membership rules or the design of decision-taking, as well as path-dependencies influence IO activities and discourses.

Mechanisms of Global Governance: Economic Analysis

2013 ◽  
pp. 4-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Grigoryev ◽  
A. Kurdin
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Narrow Sense ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Global Problems

The coordination of economic activity at the global level is carried out through different mechanisms, which regulate activities of companies, states, international organizations. In spite of wide diversity of entrenched mechanisms of governance in different areas, they can be classified on the basis of key characteristics, including distribution of property rights, mechanisms of governance (in the narrow sense according to O. Williamson), mechanisms of expansion. This approach can contribute not only to classifying existing institutions but also to designing new ones. The modern aggravation of global problems may require rethinking mechanisms of global governance. The authors offer the universal framework for considering this problem and its possible solutions.

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