- Copyright Page
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Box and Figure
- Tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- The Rise of Global Policy and Transnational Administration
- Global Public Policy and the Constitution of Political Authority
- Globalization and Internationalization: Impact upon the State and the Civil Service
- The Potential and Limits of Administrative Sovereignty
- State Fragility, International Development Policy, and Global Responses
- International Policy Transfer: Between the Global and Sovereign and between the Global and Local
- International Policy Entrepreneurship
- City Networks and Paradiplomacy as Global Public Policy
- International NGOs, Transnational Civil Society, and Global Public Policy: Opportunities and Obstacles in the Twenty-First Century
- The International Civil Service
- Domestic Capacity to Deliver Innovative Solutions for Grand Social Challenges
- Sovereignty Renewed: Transgovernmental Policy Networks and the Global–Local Dilemma
- Scales and Network Societies: The Expansion of Global Public Policy
- The Transnationalization of Public Spheres and Global Policy
- Conceptualizing Global Public Policy: A Global Public Good Perspective
- Regionalization and Transregional policies
- European Union Studies as a Tributary of Global Policy and Transnational Administration
- International Political Economy: A Global ‘Policy Turn’?
- Law–Space Nexus, Global Governance, and Global Administrative Law
- Filling the Gap: Global Masters of Public Administration and Public Policy Programmes
- Global Policy and Transnational Administration: Intellectual Currents in World Making
- Knowledge Networks, Scientific Communities, and Evidence-Informed Policy
- The Importance of Informal Intergovernmental Organizations: A Typology of Transnational Administration without Independent Secretariats
- Transnational Administration from the Beginning: The Importance of Charisma in Shaping International Organizational Norms
- Designing Global Public Policies in the Twenty-First Century
- The Agenda-Setting Capacity of Global Networks
- Transnational Policy Communities and Regulatory Networks as Global Administration
- Standard Setting and International Peer Review: The OECD as a Transnational Policy Actor
- Evolving Funding Patterns of Global Programmes and Their Impacts on Governance and Operations
- Development Partnerships’ Governance Structures, Accountability, and Participation
- Governance and Administration in Global Health Organizations: Considering the Legacies of the ‘Golden Era’ of Global Health Policy?
- Organized Business and Global Public Policy: Administration, Participation, and Regulation
- The Role of Large Management Consultancy Firms in Global Public Policy
- Compliance in Transnational Regulation: A Global Supply Chain Approach
- Providing Foundations: Philanthropy, Global Policy, and Administration
- Global Summitry as Sites of Transnational Technocratic Management and Policy Contestation
- Heads of International Organizations: Politicians, Diplomats, Managers
- International Civil Servant Management: A Personnel-Influenced Research Agenda
- The United Nations, Peacekeepers, and Accountability
- International Organizations, Civil Servants, and Whistleblowing
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The transnationalization of public policy has in part been driven by knowledge networks, but the role and functioning of such networks have also been transformed in the process. This chapter discusses some key contributions in the study of knowledge networks in transnational policy from both public administration and from International Relations, and highlights areas where there is scope for cross-fertilization. Three issues merit attention. First, the ways in which normative commitments are linked to or articulated with knowledge production and how this shapes the role and functioning of knowledge networks. Second, how the emergence of evidence-based policy and the reliance on ‘objective’ measures as a basis for public policy transforms the status of expertise and may undermine the idea of the expert as providing judgements. Third, how transnationalization is also a process of differentiation, which renders our analytical vocabulary less useful, since a key feature of differentiation is the blurring and re-drawing of boundaries between actors and activities.
Keywords: differentiation, evidence-based policy making, expertise, networks, scientific communities
Ole Jacob Sending is Research Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).
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- Copyright Page
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Box and Figure
- Tables
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- The Rise of Global Policy and Transnational Administration
- Global Public Policy and the Constitution of Political Authority
- Globalization and Internationalization: Impact upon the State and the Civil Service
- The Potential and Limits of Administrative Sovereignty
- State Fragility, International Development Policy, and Global Responses
- International Policy Transfer: Between the Global and Sovereign and between the Global and Local
- International Policy Entrepreneurship
- City Networks and Paradiplomacy as Global Public Policy
- International NGOs, Transnational Civil Society, and Global Public Policy: Opportunities and Obstacles in the Twenty-First Century
- The International Civil Service
- Domestic Capacity to Deliver Innovative Solutions for Grand Social Challenges
- Sovereignty Renewed: Transgovernmental Policy Networks and the Global–Local Dilemma
- Scales and Network Societies: The Expansion of Global Public Policy
- The Transnationalization of Public Spheres and Global Policy
- Conceptualizing Global Public Policy: A Global Public Good Perspective
- Regionalization and Transregional policies
- European Union Studies as a Tributary of Global Policy and Transnational Administration
- International Political Economy: A Global ‘Policy Turn’?
- Law–Space Nexus, Global Governance, and Global Administrative Law
- Filling the Gap: Global Masters of Public Administration and Public Policy Programmes
- Global Policy and Transnational Administration: Intellectual Currents in World Making
- Knowledge Networks, Scientific Communities, and Evidence-Informed Policy
- The Importance of Informal Intergovernmental Organizations: A Typology of Transnational Administration without Independent Secretariats
- Transnational Administration from the Beginning: The Importance of Charisma in Shaping International Organizational Norms
- Designing Global Public Policies in the Twenty-First Century
- The Agenda-Setting Capacity of Global Networks
- Transnational Policy Communities and Regulatory Networks as Global Administration
- Standard Setting and International Peer Review: The OECD as a Transnational Policy Actor
- Evolving Funding Patterns of Global Programmes and Their Impacts on Governance and Operations
- Development Partnerships’ Governance Structures, Accountability, and Participation
- Governance and Administration in Global Health Organizations: Considering the Legacies of the ‘Golden Era’ of Global Health Policy?
- Organized Business and Global Public Policy: Administration, Participation, and Regulation
- The Role of Large Management Consultancy Firms in Global Public Policy
- Compliance in Transnational Regulation: A Global Supply Chain Approach
- Providing Foundations: Philanthropy, Global Policy, and Administration
- Global Summitry as Sites of Transnational Technocratic Management and Policy Contestation
- Heads of International Organizations: Politicians, Diplomats, Managers
- International Civil Servant Management: A Personnel-Influenced Research Agenda
- The United Nations, Peacekeepers, and Accountability
- International Organizations, Civil Servants, and Whistleblowing
- Index