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Dear Colleagues,
I am co-convening RC19's Session 17 at next year's ISA conference in Durban on international organisations and social policy (see description below) and invite you to consider proposing a paper for this panel. We encourage the early submission of proposals; in any case they should be submitted to myself and Bob Deacon by 15th December 2005 at the latest. As co-editor of Global Social Policy, I envisage that papers will be considered for publication in the Journal subject to the usual refereeing process.
We would be grateful if you would notify colleagues and postgraduate students who you believe would be interested in presenting a paper at this session.
Best wishes, Nicola Yeates
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/congress2006/rc/rc19_durban.htm
Session 17
International organisation prescriptions for and influence upon national social policy
Chairs: Nicola Yeates, Open University, UK [log in to unmask]
Bob Deacon, University of Sheffield, U.K, [log in to unmask],
Deacon et al (1997), Yeates (2001), Orenstein (2004), Stubbs (2003), Boas & McNeill (2004), Armingeon and Beyleler (2004) and others have all contributed to the analysis of the social policy prescriptions of international organisations such as the World Bank, ILO, OECD and International NGOs. More research is required into the ways in which such prescriptions for national social policy are arrived at within such organisations and how they are transmitted to national policy makers. What are the networks of policy scholars and policy entrepreneurs who seek to influence such policies? Do governments who are stakeholders in some of these organisations seek to influence policy prescriptions via, for example contributions to World Bank Trust funds? What is the relationship in terms of policy influence between institutes such as the World Bank Institute and the Bank or between the UNRISD and WIDER and UN social agencies? What are the processes of policy review and refereeing and how have these lead to the adoption of specific policy measures such as the Multi-Pillar framework for pensions in the Bank or the Extension of Social Security policy within the ILO? Are policy transfers from IOs to government Ministries facilitated by the membership of national and international 'civil servants' of the same epistemic communities? How is global policy diffused?
This panel is inviting papers that open up to scholarly scrutiny the social policy content, social policy formation process and social policy transfer process associated within international organisations. Case studies of either global organisations or of regional organisations such as the Asian and Development Bank are welcome. Papers may address any sector of social policy: health, education, social protection, water and utilities, housing etc. Papers will be considered for publication in Global Social Policy
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