Mechanisms of OECD governance: international incentives for national policy-making?

Mechanisms of OECD Governance analyses the influential but under-studied Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It explores its role in political processes through various case studies in a variety of policy fields and provides a current and wide-ranging analysis of this organization. INDICE: List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements by the Editors; Angel Gurría: Preface by the OECD Secretary-General; 1: Kerstin Martens & Anja P. Jakobi: Introduction: The OECDas an Actor in International Politics; 2: Morten Ougaard: The OECD's Global Role: Agenda Setting and Policy Diffusion; Part I: Core Areas of OECD Activity;3: Richard Woodward: The OECD and Economic Governance: Invisibility and Impotence?; 4: Robert T. Kudrle: Tax Policy in the OECD: Soft Governance Gets Harder; 5: Tony Porter: The OECD and Global Finance: The Governance of New Issues: New Actors and New Financial Frontiers; 6: Kerstin Jacobsson & Niklas Noaksson: From Deregulation to Flexicurity? The Makeover of the OECD Jobs Strategy; 7:Anja P. Jakobi: The OECD and Crime: The Fight Against Corruption and Money Laundering; Part II: Complementary Areas of OECD Activities; 8: Anja P. Jakobi &Kerstin Martens: Expanding and Intensifying Governance:The OECD in Education Policy; 9: Alexandra Kaasch: A New Global Health Actor? The OECD's Careful Guidance of National Health Care Systems; 10: Rianne Mahon: Learning, Forgetting,Rediscovering: Producing the OECD's 'New' Family Policy; 11: Monique Centrone: The OECD as Ideas Diffuser: The Growth of the Global Biotechnology Industry;12: Janna Teltemann: The Activities of the OECD in International Migration: How to become a Relevant Actor in an Emerging Policy Field; 13: Anja P. Jakobi & Kerstin Martens: Conclusion: Findings, Implications and Outlook of OECD Governance 490; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959114-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 02/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés