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New development approaches and the adaptability of international agencies: the case of the World Bank
In: International organization, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 415-439
ISSN: 1531-5088
Certain "realist" views of the international economic regime construe international financial agencies as straightforward reflections of the power and interests of nation states. However, the World Bank's responsiveness to a wide range of demands for new development priorities and approaches also depends on the compliance of its huge staff. The staff's discretion in shaping, implementing, discrediting, or resisting these approaches requires an organizational-theoretic analysis of the sources of acceptance of or resistance to particular initiatives. Role-set theory accounts for many of the motivational sources of resistance. The capabilities to resist new initiatives through "bureaucratic politics" can be understood through March and Simon's emphasis on the importance of absorbing uncertainty. On the basis of these theories and findings on attitudes expressed by Bank staff, strategies can be developed to enhance the Bank's responsiveness to such initiatives as greater emphasis on the alleviation of poverty. Theory and findings also provide a basis for speculating on the characteristics required of an international agency to warrant treating it as an autonomous variable in the international system.
New development approaches and the adaptability of international agencies: the case of the World Bank
In: International organization, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 415-439
ISSN: 0020-8183
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The forecasting potential of complex models
In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 247-267
ISSN: 1573-0891
The Forecasting Potential of Complex Models
In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity ; the journal of the Society of Policy Scientists, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 247-267
ISSN: 0032-2687
The nature & use of "complex" models for forecasting & policy simulation are analyzed on theoretical & empirical-performance grounds. While the accuracy of complex models in forecasting trends in such fields as economic & energy is undistinguished, their special virtues -- preserving counterintuitive results & representing subsystem interdependence -- could be used to better advantage than current practice permits. Suggestions for such improvements, through more diversified models, microprocess models in addition to the typical macro models, a mix of mechanically & judgmentally operated models, & the modeling of policy response, are reviewed. 26 References. Modified HA.
Forecasting: An Appraisal for Policy-Makers and Planners
In: Population and development review, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 352
ISSN: 1728-4457
Communism in Italy and France. Edited by Donald L. M. Blackmer and Sidney Tarrow. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975. Pp. xviii + 651. $25.00, cloth; $9.75, paper.)
In: American political science review, Band 72, Heft 4, S. 1450-1451
ISSN: 1537-5943
Psychic Conflict in Spanish America: Six Essays on the Psychohistory of the Region
In: Political psychology: journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 505
ISSN: 1467-9221
The Stability of Communist Electorates: Evidence from a Longitudinal Analysis of French and Italian Aggregate Data
In: American journal of political science, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 475
ISSN: 1540-5907
Strategic planning and forecasting: political risk and economic opportunity
In: A Wiley Interscience Publication
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Scheming for the Poor: The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America
In: Foreign affairs: an American quarterly review, Band 62, Heft 5, S. 1254
ISSN: 2327-7793
Book reviews
In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity, Band 16, Heft 2, S. 181-196
ISSN: 1573-0891
Political risk analysis: a new approach to old problems?
In: Vierteljahresberichte / Forschungsinstitut der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Heft 90, S. 303-393
ISSN: 0015-7910, 0936-451X
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