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Getting a Seat at the IMF Executive Board Table: Strategic, Economic, or Bureaucratic Politics?
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Title: Getting a Seat at the IMF Executive Board Table
By: Bessma Momani
Assistant Professor, Departments of Political Science and History, University of Waterloo
Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance and Innovation
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Paper presented to the ISA Annual Conference, San Francisco, March 2008
Abstract:
How are seats allocated on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Executive Board? Are seats determined by bureaucratic interests, strategic power politics, or by a combination of the two? The theoretical debate on this issue is lively, with hypothesizing taking place on every front. What is sorely lacking, however, is empirical evidence of actual practice. Developing an evidence-based understanding of the manner in which IMF member states gain access to seats at the Executive Board is particularly crucial now, given the centrality of this issue to current debates about the very future of the IMF itself. As part of a multi-case study, this paper will present historical context to this current policy dilemma, illustrating the political process involved in getting a seat at the Executive Board in the cases of Russia and Switzerland.
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Title: Getting a Seat at the IMF Executive Board Table
By: Bessma Momani
Assistant Professor, Departments of Political Science and History, University of Waterloo
Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance and Innovation
Paper presented to the ISA Annual Conference, San Francisco, March 2008
Abstract:
How are seats allocated on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Executive Board? Are seats
determined by bureaucratic interests, strategic power politics, or by a combination of the two?
The theoretical debate on this issue is lively, with hypothesizing taking place on every front.
What is sorely lacking, however, is empirical evidence of actual practice. Developing an
evidence-based understanding of the manner in which IMF member states gain access to seats at
the Executive Board is particularly crucial now, given the centrality of this issue to current
debates about the very future of the IMF itself. As part of a multi-case study, this paper will
present historical context to this current policy dilemma, illustrating the political process
involved in getting a seat at the Executive Board in the cases of Russia and Switzerland.
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