International organizations as policy actors: An ideational approach
- 2 August 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Global Social Policy
- Vol. 13 (2), 125-143
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1468018113484608
Abstract
The study of how ideas and discourse evolve within international organizations is one of the most important frontiers of global social policy theory. Setting forth an ideational approach to understanding their behavior, the article argues that international organizations are more open systems than most realists and structuralists believe. Their constantly evolving discourse and ideas can directly impact domestic policy. In order to stress this reality, drawing on the case of pension privatization, the article compares these organizations with ideologically driven domestic think tanks which, as far as pension privatization is concerned, have proved much more rigid in their policy prescriptions than the World Bank and other international organizations traditionally associated with the global pension privatization campaign.Keywords
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