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In life, delegation is fundamental. But it is difficult, especially
when attempted internationally, as in the long delegation chains to
the United Nations family and other global governance structures.
There, much hinges on the design of delegation relationships. What
prompts another entity to fall in line - and if it does not, what
can be done? For international organizations, the conventional
answer is simple: when designing institutions, member-states endow
themselves with stringent control mechanisms, such as
monopolization of financing or vetoes over decision-making in the
new body. But as Tana Johnson shows, the conventional answer is
outdated. States rarely design international organizations alone.
Instead, negotiations usually involve international bureaucrats
employed in pre-existing organizations. To unveil these overlooked
but pivotal players, Organizational Progeny uses new data on nearly
200 intergovernmental organizations and detailed accounts of the
origins of prominent and diverse institutions - the World Food
Program, United Nations Development Program, International Energy
Agency, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Financial Action
Task Force, Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. When
international bureaucrats have a say, they often strive to insulate
new institutions against the usual control mechanisms by which
states steer, monitor, or reverse organizational activities. This
increases control costs for states, is difficult to roll back, and
even produces bodies that powerful countries initially opposed. The
result is a proliferation of organizational progeny over which
national governments are literally losing "control". Johnson
explores what this means for the democratic nature of global
governance and how practitioners can encourage or staunch this
phenomenon. Transformations in Governance is a major new academic
book series from Oxford University Press. It is designed to
accommodate the impressive growth of research in comparative
politics, international relations, public policy, federalism,
environmental and urban studies concerned with the dispersion of
authority from central states up to supranational institutions,
down to subnational governments, and side-ways to public-private
networks. It brings together work that significantly advances our
understanding of the organization, causes, and consequences of
multilevel and complex governance. The series is selective,
containing annually a small number of books of exceptionally high
quality by leading and emerging scholars. The series targets mainly
single-authored or co-authored work, but it is pluralistic in terms
of disciplinary specialization, research design, method, and
geographical scope. Case studies as well as comparative studies,
historical as well as contemporary studies, and studies with a
national, regional, or international focus are all central to its
aims. Authors use qualitative, quantitative, formal modeling, or
mixed methods. A trade mark of the books is that they combine
scholarly rigour with readable prose and an attractive production
style. Winner of the International Studies Association's Chadwick
Alger Prize for best book on international organization and
multilateralism. The series is edited by Liesbet Hooghe and Gary
Marks of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the VU
Amsterdam, and Walter Mattli of the University of Oxford.
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