Advances to the study of international public administration

ABSTRACT

As an area of research, specifying crucial conditions under which international public administration (IPA) may enjoy independence from member-state governments has become an increasingly vibrant research area. This collection responds to three as yet unresolved research tasks: (1) systematically comparing IPAs by offering large-N data across cases; (2) taking organization seriously by identifying how the organizational architectures of IPAs affect decision-making processes and subsequently the pursuit of public policy-making; and (3) examining the varied consequences of the autonomization of IPAs, notably for member-state public sector governance and for the integration of transnational regulatory regimes.

KEY WORDS:

• Autonomy
• international public administration
• organization structure
• socialization
• temporal sorting

Acknowledgements

The author acknowledges valuable comments from Michael W. Bauer, Stefan Gänzle, Johan P. Olsen and Jeremy Richardson.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributor

Jarle Trondal is professor of public administration at the University of Agder, Department of Political Science and Management, and professor of European studies at the University of Oslo, ARENA Centre for European Studies.

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Funding

This contribution is financially supported by the Norwegian Research Council (‘EURODIV: Integration and division: towards a segmented Europe’) and the University of Agder (‘COMPOL: the rise of common political order’).