1st Edition
The Politics of Expertise in International Organizations How International Bureaucracies Produce and Mobilize Knowledge
1. Introduction: Production and uses of knowledge by international bureaucracies
Annabelle Littoz-Monnet
2. The role of expert knowledge in international organizations
Christina Boswell
3. International bureaucracies’ competence creep into bioethics: The use of ethics experts as a bureaucratic device
Annabelle Littoz-Monnet
4. Coupling science to governance: Straddling the science-policy interface
Peter M. Haas
5. Experts and the production of international policy knowledge: Do epistemic communities do the job
David Demortain
6. Partners to diplomacy: Transnational experts and knowledge transfer among global policy programs
Diane Stone
7. Connecting scholarly expertise to international policy practice at the UN
Thomas Biersteker
8. Modes of knowledge mobilization throughout the international policy process
Cecilia Cannon
9. Evaluation and simulation: Producing evidence in the global politics of social cash transfers
John Berten
10. The managerialism of neoliberal global governance: The case of the OECD
Manal Elshihry and Chandana G. Alawattage Chandana
11. Doing comparison: Producing authority in an international organization
Richard Freeman and Steve Sturdy
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Biography
Annabelle Littoz-Monnet is an Associate Professor in international relations/political science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
'To conclude, chapters vary in how they investigate expert knowledge: whether its relation to informing policy making, the processes of knowledge exchange and dissemination, or as a source of power...Finally, as mentioned, the volume offers a rich collection of case studies across a number of different IOs, on quite diverse policy areas.'
Cleo Davies, University of Edinburgh, Governance (Wiley)
