Self-legitimation in the face of politicization: Why international organizations centralized public communication
Self-legitimation in the face of politicization: Why international organizations centralized public communication
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DOI：
10.1007/s11558-017-9287-y
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发表时间：
2018-12-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Ecker-Ehrhardt, Matthias
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作者：
Ecker-Ehrhardt, Matthias
近几十年来，国际组织(I0)通过对传播任务进行更广泛的编纂以及将这些任务在IO官僚机构的单位内进行部门划分，在很大程度上集中了它们的公共传播。这份文件首次系统地分析了机构设计方面的这一重要发展，使用了关于1950年至2015年间48个内部监督办公室公共传播组织的新数据。它认为，面对政治化程度的提高，即针对内部监督办公室的公众意识和激进主义，自我合法化是中央集权的主要驱动力。从经验上看，这项研究表明，随着跨国公民社会的组织并获得参与IO决策的机会，公共传播的集中度显著增加。此外，有争议的激进主义和公共丑闻方面的政治化在很大程度上解释了内部监督办公室不同程度的集中化。
International organizations (I0) have centralized their public communication to a large extent over recent decades by undertaking a broader codification of communication tasks as well as a departmentalization of these tasks within units of IO bureaucracies. The paper provides the first systematic analysis of this important development in institutional design using a novel data set on the organization of public communication in 48 IOs between 1950 and 2015. It identifies self-legitimation as a key driver of centralization in the face of increased levels of politicization, that is, public awareness and activism directed at IOs. Empirically, the study suggests that the centralization of public communication significantly increases as transnational civil society organizes and gains access to IO decision-making. Further, politicization in terms of contentious activism and public scandals substantially accounts for varying levels of centralization across IOs.