Global Governance and Development

Session Submission Type: Virtual Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This panel sheds new light on the sources of effective and ineffective policies among international organizations and bureaucracies involved in international development. Dietrich, Iannantuoni and Reinsberg probe whether discourse about best practices in foreign aid actually influences aid allocation decisions across donor governments. Carcelli examines how fragmented domestic bureaucracies can undermine compliance with international commitments intended to improve foreign aid effectiveness. Bush, Donno and Zetterberg present evidence from an original survey of development professionals, which examines how these policy makers respond to different types of policy reforms in authoritarian regimes. Focusing on the increasingly autocratic regime in Burundi, Bouka, Curtice and Campbell examine how variation in sub-national governance conditions the effectiveness of UN statebuilding programs. Taken together, these papers present novel insights into the norms, beliefs and discourse of international bureaucrats; how institutional fragmentation can undermine aid effectiveness; and the particular challenges that donors face when interacting with authoritarian recipient governments. A variety of original data and methods are employed, including text analysis, survey experiments, cross-national and sub-national analysis.

Sub Unit

• Division 17: International Collaboration

Chair

• Daniel L. Nielson University of Texas at Austin

Discussants

• Daniel L. Nielson University of Texas at Austin

• Ranjit Lall London School of Economics

Individual Presentations

• Rewarding Women’s Rights in Dictatorships - Sarah S. Bush, Yale University; Daniela Donno, University of Cyprus; Par Zetterberg, Uppsala University

• UN Statebuilding in Authoritarian States: Governance and Bureaucratic Innovation - Yolande Bouka, George Washington University; Travis B. Curtice, Drexel University; Susanna Campbell, American University

• Bureaucracy and Treaty Compliance: Evidence from an OECD Agreement - Shannon Carcelli, University of Maryland, College Park

• From Discourse to Practice? Evidence from the OECD DAC - Simone Dietrich, University of Geneva; Alice Iannantuoni, University of Geneva; Bernhard Reinsberg, University of Cambridge