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Book SynopsisA timely and insightful volume, The OECD and Transnational Governance fills an important gap in the literature on global governance.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction / Rianne Mahon and Stephen McBride
Part 1: The OECD and Transnational Governance
1 From Reconstructing Europe to Constructing Globalization: The OECD in Historical Perspective / Robert Wolfe
2 Role of the OECD in the Orchestration of Global Knowledge Networks / Tony Porter and Michael Webb
3 Inversions without End: The OECD and Global Public Management Reform / Leslie A. Pal
4 Towards Complex Multilateralism? Civil Society and the OECD / Richard Woodward
5 Making Neo-Gramscian Sense of the Development Assistance Committee: Towards an Inclusive Neoliberal World Development Order / Arne Ruckert
Part 2: Governance and Economies
6 The OECD and Foreign Investment Rules: The Global Promotion of Liberalization / Russell Alan Williams
7 The OECD’s Local Turn: “Innovative Liberalism” for the Cities? / Neil Bradford
8 Policy Learning? The OECD and Its Jobs Strategy / Stephen McBride, Kathleen McNutt, and Russell Alan Williams
9 “Crafting the Conventional Economic Wisdom”: The OECD and the Canadian Policy Process / Andrew Jackson
10 Lost in Translation? OECD Ideas and Danish Labour Market Policy / Holly Grinvalds
Part 3: Governance and the Social
11 The OECD’s Guidelines for the Licensing of Genetic Inventions: Policy Learning in Response to the Gene Patenting Controversy / Lisa Drouillard and E. Richard Gold
12 The OECD’s Social and Health Policy: Neoliberal Stalking Horse or Balancer of Social and Economic Objectives? / Bob Deacon and Alexandra Kaasch
13 OECD Education Policies and World Hegemony / Kjell Rubenson
14 Babies and Bosses: Gendering the OECD’s Social Policy Discourse / Rianne Mahon
Conclusion / Stephen McBride and Rianne Mahon
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Contributors
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