The Elgar Companion to the OECD

Edited by Fabrizio De Francesco, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, UK and Claudio M. Radaelli, Professor of Comparative Public Policy, School of Transnational Governance (EUI), Italy and Professor of Public Policy, University College London, UK

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Elgar Companion to the OECD 1
Fabrizio De Francesco and Claudio M. Radaelli

PART I DISCIPLINES
2 The historical transformations of the OECD 9
Matthieu Leimgruber and Matthias Schmelzer
3 International political economy 23
Alice Chessé and Amy Verdun
4 Corporate consensus and the OECD’s human rights mechanism 37
Stefanie Khoury and David Whyte
5 The politics of the OECD 50
Magdaléna Hadjiisky
6 Public management 67
Denita Cepiku and Marco Amici

PART II MECHANISMS AND TOOLS OF GOVERNANCE
7 The OECD as an international bureaucracy 81
Martin Marcussen and Jarle Trondal
8 The OECD in the ecosystem of international organization 95
Diane Stone
9 Peer reviews 105
Thomas Conzelmann
10 Indicators and benchmarking 116
Matthias Kranke
11 The network of economic regulators 126
Francesca Pia Vantaggiato

PART III POLICY SECTORS
12 Development assistance and cooperation 137
Joren Verschaeve
13 Education 146
Sotiria Grek and Bob Lingard
14 Environment 154
Markku Lehtonen
15 Regulation 166
Fabrizio De Francesco and Claudio M. Radaelli
16 International taxation 173
Fayçal Ait Abdellouhab and Claudio M. Radaelli
17 Economic policy 184
George Papaconstantinou

PART IV THE IMPACT ON DOMESTIC POLICIES
18 Australia: Varieties of policy impacts 198
Peter Carroll
19 Mexico: From the diffusion of ideas to the making of policy changes 208
Fabiola Perales-Fernández and Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna
20 Brazil: Cooperation, policy transfer and resistance 220
Osmany Porto de Oliveira
21 Kazakhstan: In search of international legitimacy 231
Colin Knox and Saltanat Janenova

PART V EMERGING ISSUES
22 Public governance 245
Leslie A. Pal
23 Good governance 255
B. Guy Peters
24 Cyber security 265
Anthony J. S. Craig
25 Sustainable development 278
Ulrike Zeigermann

Index