Mechanisms of OECD Governance International

This book is devoted to the analysis of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its role in international and national policy making. On its 50th anniversary, the OECD enjoys widely acknowledged international standing. Despite this, it has so far remained a rarely researched and analyzed organization. Mechanisms of OECD Governance is thus a pioneering work: it fills a long-overdue gap in presenting a theoretically guided and empirically rich analysis of the OECD as a political actor, and explores its role in political processes through various case studies in a variety of policy fields. By conceptualizing the contributions to this volume around the concept of mechanisms of governance, the book explores how and to what extent the OECD provides international incentives for national policy making. The volume collects a set of ten contributions on the OECD and its activities in core fields of its commitment as an 'economic organization', such as economic and labor market policy, tax issues, finance or financial crime, but also in complementary fields in which the organization is active today despite its original economic focus, such as education, biotechnology, health, family issues, and migration. The case studies presented in this volume are an interdisciplinary collection from different academic perspectives, including political science, international relations, law, and organization studies. Mechanisms of OECD Governance provides a current and wide-ranging analysis of this organization including its constraints and opportunities in policy making.

Kerstin Martens is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Bremen in Germany. Her research interests include international organizations, soft governance, and education policy.

Anja P. Jakobi is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK). Her main research interests are world politics, international organizations and global political change, in particular in the fields of security, crime, education and social policy.

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. xii
Acknowledgements by the Editors	p. xiii
Foreword by the OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria	p. xiv
Introduction: The OECD as an Actor in International Politics	p. 1
The OECD's Global Role: Agenda-setting and Policy Diffusion	p. 26
Core Areas of OECD Activity
The OECD and Economic Governance: Invisibility and Impotance?	p. 53
Tax Policy in the OECD: Soft Governance Gets Harder	p. 75
The OECD and Global Finance: The Governance of New Issues, New Actors, and New Financial Frontiers	p. 98
From Deregulation to Flexicurity? The Makeover of the OECD Jobs Strategy	p. 119
The OECD and Crime: The Fight against Corruption and Money Laundering	p. 139
Complementary Areas of OECD Activities
Expanding and Intensifying Governance: The OECD in Education Policy	p. 163
A New Global Health Actor? The OECD's Careful Guidance of National Health Care Systems	p. 180
Learning, Forgetting, Rediscovering: Producing the OECD's "New" Family Policy	p. 198
The OECD as Ideas Diffuser: The Growth of the Global Biotechnology Industry	p. 217
The Activities of the OECD in International Migration: How to Become a Relevant Actor in an Emerging Policy Field	p. 241
Conclusion: Findings, Implications, and Outlook of OECD Governance	p. 260
Index	p. 281
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