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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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Momani, Bessma. "Getting a Seat at the IMF Executive Board Table: Strategic, Economic, or Bureaucratic Politics?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252154_index.html>

Momani, B. , 2008-03-26 "Getting a Seat at the IMF Executive Board Table: Strategic, Economic, or Bureaucratic Politics?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252154_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: How are seats allocated on the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Executive Board? Are seats determined by strategic power politics, as realists would contend; by economic and class interests, as critical theorists would argue; or by bureaucratic considerations, as organizational theorists would insist? 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. This research will also build methodological bridges between the various theoretical paradigms used to examine decision-making bodies in international organizations. The core of the project will be an analysis of the process of IMF Executive Board seat allocation, with special focus on four countries that have gained seats since the late 1970s: Saudi Arabia (1978), China (1980), Russia (1992), and Switzerland (1992). The addition of these particular seats expanded the IMF Executive Board from the 20 mandated by the IMF’s Articles of Agreement to its current 24 seat composition. Why did the IMF Executive Board expand beyond its mandated number to include these members? Through a rigorous comparative political-historical analysis, this study will put the IMF’s technical, rules-based argument for how seats are allocated to the test. The project uses content-analysis of the IMF’s own internal Archive documents (including Executive Board minutes, staff technical studies, and Board decisions); of declassified US government documents acquired using Freedom of Information Act requests from the State and Treasury Departments, and of transcripts of personal interviews with IMF staff, Executive Directors, US officials, other governments’ officials, and policy insiders.

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