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Introduction : locating anti-corruption agencies within the politics of anti-corruption in Latin America -- Anti-corruption whack-a-mole : Costa Rica's de-centralized agencies and increasingly sophisticated corruption -- Combating corruption in Chile : the Presidential Advisory Commissions on Public Probity, 1994-2015 -- Promise, invisibility, politicization : the waving path of the Anti-Corruption Office in Argentina -- The politics of building anti-corruption institutions : the case of anti-corruption agencies in Peru -- The anti-corruption agency and its role in anti-corruption policy in Colombia : improvement in institutional capacity or political symbolism? -- Corruption control under fire : a brief history of Brazil's Office of the Comptroller General -- Mexico's national anti-corruption system -- Dealing with the original contradiction in fighting corruption in countries with systemic corruption : a critique of the cases of Brazil and Mexico and their multiorganizational strategies -- Unprecedented success and entrenched opposition : the complicated legacy of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala -- The Mission to Support the Fight Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH) and its new integrated criminal investigation model -- Ten key lessons from the OAS Mission in Support of the Fight against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras -- The role of the United Nations and the Organization of American States in delegation of governance agreements : the case of hybrid anticorruption agencies in Central America -- The illusion of CICIES in El Salvador -- Empty promises to fighting corruption in Ecuador : the failure of the International Experts Commission against Corruption in Ecuador (CEICCE) -- Conclusion : the anti-corruption agency space in Latin America.

"This book addresses the regulatory capacity of the EU as it responds to the huge challenge of realizing the single market. It explores its weaknesses, the EU regulatory networks, expert committees and EU agencies formed in response, and the exceptionally large and complex transnational regulatory system which has resulted. It defines the EU regulatory space as a multi-faceted phenomenon of institutional expansion whose shape varies across sectors and changes over time. Empirically based on the exploration of how regulatory delegation has emerged and evolved in three key EU policies (food safety, electricity, and telecommunications), the book disentangles and links together the functional, institutional and power-distributional factors and their interplay over time into a unified explanation of the many faces of the EU regulatory space"--Back cover

This book concentrates on the political economies of Germany and France in the period spanning between the end of the Second World War and the 1970s, with a subsequent consideration of Italy and Britain as 'shadow cases'.

European postwar accounts have never reconciled the thwarting of widespread aspirations to socialism, and the twin feat of equalitarian growth and institutional stability. This success is precisely due to achieving the reconciliation of democracy and economic management, the yearning for collective control over social and material outcomes that was tragically aborted in the interwar period, and fed 1945 expectations. Germany, in 1948–49, and France, in 1958, carried radical institutional and policy reforms with much more in common than previously realised. Under the recast republics, social groups were steered towards support for modernisation – by the state, not through a mythical settlement. Consensus was built for trade and low inflation as vectors for higher productivity. State capacity was lifted by leadership in ideas, executive branch accountability to voters, and technocratic agencies. British and Italian underperformances reveal the countries' uneasiness with the compact.

Once understood, the convergence of productivism and democracy in the European regulatory state provides a new narrative – especially relevant today – of experts taming populists.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Understanding trans-Pacific interactions: The liberal inter-imperial order in the "Pacific" region, 1920-1960 -- 1. The Institute of Pacific Relations (1925-61): Non-Western origins of IR study -- 2. Manchukuo's quest for "recognition" and the Institute of Pacific Relations -- 3. The cultural exchange programs in the prewar period as cultural borderlands: The Japan-America Student Conference and the Philippines-Japan Student Conference -- PART II: The regeneration of international society in the Asia-Pacific: Toward the postwar years -- 4. Westernization narratives re-examined: Through the eyes of Edwin O. Reischauer and John K. Fairbank -- 5. William R. Castle and his Japanese connections: Focusing on the period after he left the State Department -- 6. Japanese Americanists' visions of the Asia-Pacific order: From the prewar to the postwar years -- 7. SSRC's Committee on Comparative Politics and the struggle to construct a general theory of political modernization using the Japanese model: Scholarly endeavors of Robert E. Ward -- Epilogue -- Index.

"This sixth edition of a national bestseller is organized the way businesspeople think--by product rather than by agency. It is a comprehensive, yet user-friendly, resource for navigating the products and services of various U.S. and foreign government agencies as well as multilateral organizations including the International Finance Corporation and Inter-American Development Bank"--Provided by publisher.

Government organizations spend enormous amounts. They employ a large percentage of the workforce. They have an undeniably huge impact on the national economy and wealth. Yet they are, for the most part, unmanaged. What passes for management is a combination of oversight and audit. Oversight is primarily reactive: offering negative feedback for failures and demanding additional rules and regulations to prevent reoccurrences. Audits look for "bright line" discrepancies and clear violations to those rules and regulations. Working in tandem, these processes provide indignant sound bites and the appearance of management that is really mindless compliance to rules.

"Controlling EU Agencies launches the debate on how to build a comprehensive system of controls in light of the ongoing trends of agencification and Europeanisation of the executive in the EU. Expert multi-disciplinary contributors explore the potential of interconnecting different concepts and types of controls, as well as different outputs of EU agencies, to address the challenges and limitations that individual types of control present. Insightful chapters analyse these issues in relation to individual concepts of control - autonomy, accountability, effective judicial protection, deference, protection of fundamental rights, transparency, liability - as well as specifically for different types of agencies' outputs, including both soft and hard laws. Through the creation of a systemic view, the book suggests ways in which this system of controls may be improved for the future. Timely and engaging, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of law, governance, public administration and political science, especially those investigating controls of public power. It will also provide an important resource for researchers and officials dealing with design and operation of EU agencies"--

9 Transnational Cooperation and Criminal Policy10 International Congresses of Education and the Circulation of Pedagogical Knowledge in Western Europe, 1876-1910; 11 From Transnational Reformist Network to International Organization; 12 Shaping Poland; Select Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.

The book provides a comprehensive overview and detailed discussion of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies. With contributions from distinguished legal scholars, experts, and practitioners.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; 1. Introduction; 2. Policing Waves of Protest, 1995-2013; 3. To Serve and Protect Who? Policing Trends and Best Practices; 4. Local Legitimacy and Struggles for Control; 5. Officers Under Attack -- The Thin Blue Line, Pepper Spray, and Police Identity; 6. Experts, Agencies, the Private Security Sector, and Integration; 7. Protest as Threat; 8. Urine-filled Supersoakers; 9. Crisis and Control; Notes; References; Index

I. Privileges and Immunities in International Law -- I Foreign States -- II. The Legal Status of Armed Forces in Foreign Territory During Peacetime -- III. Public Vessels -- IV. Diplomatie Agents -- II. The Legal Status, Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations and Certain other International Organizations and their Headquarters -- (i) The legal basis of privileges and immunities of the Organizations -- (ii) Juridical personality and legal capacity of the Organizations -- (iii) Applicability of local laws within the headquarters of the Organizations -- (iv) Inviolability of the headquarters of the Organizations -- (v) Duty of the host State to ensure the protection of the head quarters of the Organizations -- (vi) Fiscal and other immunities enjoyed by the Organizations -- (vii) Communication facilities enjoyed by the Organizations -- (viii) Prevention of abuse of privileges and immunities by the Organizations -- III (A) Privileges and Immunities of the Officials of the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations and Certain other International Organizations -- (i) Immunity from legal process -- (ii) Personal inviolability -- (iii) Exemption from national income taxation -- (iv) Exemption from national service obligations -- (v) Customs exemptions and import facilities -- (vi) Exemption from immigration restrictions and alien registration -- (vii) Exchange and repatriation facilities -- (viii) Travel facilities -- (ix) Waiver of immunity -- III(B) Privileges and Immunities of Executive Heads and other Senior Officials -- III(C) The Right of the Host State to Expel the Officials -- IV. Privileges and Immunities of Representatives of Member States to the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations and Certain other International Organizations -- (i) Personal inviolability and inviolability of papers and documents -- (ii) Immunity from legal process -- (iii) Freedom from taxation -- (iv) Freedom of communication -- (v) Exemption from immigration restrictions, alien registration and national service obligations -- (vi) Currency or exchange facilities -- (vii) Customs and other facilities -- (viii) Representatives of the nationality of the host State -- (ix) Waiver of immunity -- (x) Resident or permanent representatives -- (xi) Right of the host State to expel the representatives -- V. Privileges and Immunities of Experts on Missions for the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations and Certain other International Organizations -- (i) Personal inviolability -- (ii) Immunity from legal process -- (iii) Freedom from taxation -- (iv) Currency or exchange facilities -- (v) Inviolability of papers and documents -- (vi) Communication facilities -- (vii) Exemption from immigration restrictions, alien registration and national service obligations -- (viii) Travel and baggage facilities -- (ix) Waiver of immunity -- VI. Conclusions and Observations -- Cases.

Over the past two decades politicians have delegated many political decisions to expert agencies or 'quangos', and portrayed the associated issues, like monetary or drug policy, as technocratic or managerial. At the same time an increasing number of important political decisions are being removed from democratic public debate altogether, leading many commentators to argue that they are part of a 'crisis of democracy', marking the 'end of politics'. Tracing the political uses a broad range of international case studies to chart the politicising and depoliticising dynamics that shape debates about the future of governance and the liberal democratic state. The book is part of the New perspectives in policy and politics series, and will be an important text for students of politics and policy, as well as researchers and policy makers