Abstract

International organizations (IOs) and their bureaucracies are more and more recognized as important players in public policy-making and -implementation beyond the nation state. Despite substantial advancement made in the study of IOs and their bureaucracies, there are still some issues that have remained fairly understudied. We largely lack, for instance, scholarly contributions that cover multiple cases and that focus on aspects that go beyond the structural characteristics of IOs such as their delegated authority or mandate. The central objective of this Special Issue is to highlight and address this research gap. To do so, it brings together various scholarly contributions that compare multiple IOs and study aspects of international public administrations and public policy that have not been on the analytical radar so far.

摘要

国际组织 (IO) 及其官僚机构越来越被公认为是超越民族国家的公共政策制定和实施的重要参与者。尽管对 IO 及其官僚机构的研究取得了实质性进展，但仍有一些问题尚未得到充分研究。例如，我们在很大程度上缺乏涵盖多个案例的学术贡献，并且侧重于超出 IO 的结构特征的方面，例如其授权或授权。本期特刊的中心目标是突出和解决这一研究空白。为此，它汇集了各种学术贡献，这些贡献比较了多个 IO，并研究了迄今为止尚未在分析雷达上的国际公共行政和公共政策方面。