Building on the concept of depoliticization, this book provides a first systematic analysis of
International Organizations (IO) apolitical claims. It shows that depoliticization sustains IO …

The study of policy transfer initially focused on transfers and transmissions among
developed countries or from developed countries to the developing world. Today the …

That public health policy and practice should be evidence based is a seemingly
uncontroversial claim. Yet governments and citizens routinely reject the best available …

This article examines the role of the World Bank and the oecd in the emergence and
circulation of the 'fragile state'concept. These organisations were critical to the early …

International public administrations (IPAs) have become an essential feature of global
governance, contributing to what some have described as the'bureaucratization of world …

As the policy field of education has become increasingly internationalized over the last two
decades, international organizations like the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …

Policy entrepreneurs are considered key actors in public policy. However, there are so many
definitions of what they can do that it is difficult to use this concept in a systematic, analytical …

Research on policy transfer and policy mobility has focused much attention on relatively elite
actors, such as politicians, international organisations, think tanks, philanthropic donors, and …

Although policy entrepreneurship is essential for fostering policy innovations to achieve
sustainable development, the literature has conflated different types of entrepreneurship and …

An impressive amount of evidence has been collected underpinning the importance of
international public administrations (ie, the secretariats of international governmental …