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Grigorescu, Alexandru. "Interaction among International Organizations in the Anti-corruption Realm: Applying Network Theory and Bureaucratic Politics to International Actors" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA, Mar 22, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p100628_index.html>

Grigorescu, A. , 2006-03-22 "Interaction among International Organizations in the Anti-corruption Realm: Applying Network Theory and Bureaucratic Politics to International Actors" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p100628_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In the past few decades, as the number of international organizations (IOs) steadily increased, interaction among them has become commonplace. They are initially created by states to deal with specific collective action problems. Yet, in time, as the IOs develop, they may take on a ?life of their own.? They often take on additional tasks and may find themselves involved in issues that other organizations are also dealing with. How do they interact with each other in such cases of organizational overlap? How do the bureaucratic interests, cultures and ?pathologies? of the various IOs affect such interaction? When are they more likely to collaborate with each other? In order to address these questions, the study focuses on the issue of anti-corruption in East and Central Europe (ECE). The realm is chosen because none of the organizations that deal with it were specifically designed for this task. Therefore, a number of international organizations (both intergovernmental and non-governmental) have recently developed strategies for dealing with corruption in states. The concentration of IOs is especially high in ECE, where an unusually large number of powerful intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations, World Bank, IMF, European Union, Council of Europe, OECD and EBRD as well as very active NGOs such as Transparency International or the Open Society Institute have been devising and funding anti-corruption programs. The paper takes an interdisciplinary approach. It draws from the network theory literature from sociology as well as from the bureaucratic politics literature. It is uses such theories to determine the relationship between an organization?s position within a network of IOs and its function. It also identifies factors (such as IO structure, culture, budget and recent functional change) that lead to a greater intensity of interaction between IOs.The study is based on approximately fifty interviews with officials from eight international intergovernmental organizations and three major non-governmental organizations from the anti-corruption realm as well as with government officials from ECE. It also uses aggregate data on approximately 200 anti-corruption projects funded by multiple IOs. The interviews and aggregate data are used to test and compare several hypotheses that derive from the literatures on network theory and bureaucratic politics.

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