The recent ideational turn in political science and public administration implies that ideas
matter. Ideas are an essential explanatory concept for understanding policy changes and …

Scholarship on elites and foreign policy has made important advances in identifying who
elites are, what elites want, and how elites influence foreign policy. This review assesses …

Neoliberal economic theories are powerful because their domestic translators make them go
local, hybridizing global scripts with local ideas. This does not mean that all local …

Since the 1980s, neoliberal policies have been diffused around the world by international
institutions established to support a very different world order. This article examines the …

Sociologists have long examined how states, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs),
international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs), and professional groups interact in …

In response to corruption and inefficient state institutions in recipient countries, some foreign
aid donors outsource the delivery of aid to nonstate development actors. Other donor …

Following calls for a more disaggregated approach to studying the consequences of IMF
programs, scholars have developed new datasets of IMF-mandated policy reforms, or …

The production of transnational knowledge that is widely recognized as legitimate is a major
source of influence for international organizations. To reinforce their expert status …

An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic
innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the …

Naturalizing the Balance of Power in the Eighteenth Century--The Cosmological Shift in
Political Economic Thought, 1650-1750--Strategic Deployment: Reforming European States …