When Knowledge Is Power
When Knowledge Is Power
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10.2307/jj.16552219
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2018-04
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E. Haas
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E. Haas
寻求在联合国和世界银行这样的国际组织中合作的政府是否曾经学会改善这些组织的业绩？国际组织能否通过一种深思熟虑的体制设计得到改进，反映在维持和平、保护人权和无害环境的经济发展方面吸取的经验教训？在这本精辟的著作中，恩斯特·哈斯考察了这些和其他问题，以描述组织改变定义问题的方法的条件。哈斯认为，当国际组织能够重新界定所要解决的问题的根源时，它们的变革最为有效。他表明，当专家们对问题的认识能够与成员国政府霸权联盟的利益相吻合时，这种自我反思是可能的。但通常，改变组织的努力开始是适应性的实践，很少对过去的行为进行系统的质疑。各组织往往在没有充分满足其大多数成员的情况下进行调整和生存，联合国自1970年以来就是这种情况。“当知识就是力量”是一个广泛的工作，将引起政治学家，组织理论家，官僚，管理和国际管理的学生的兴趣。
Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeeping, the protection of human rights, and environmentally sound economic development? In this incisive work, Ernst Haas examines these and other issues to delineate the conditions under which organizations change their methods for defining problems. Haas contends that international organizations change most effectively when they are able to redefine the causes underlying the problems to be addressed. He shows that such self-reflection is possible when the expert-generated knowledge about the problems can be made to mesh with the interests of hegemonic coalitions of member governments. But usually efforts to change organizations begin as adaptive practices that owe little to a systematic questioning of past behavior. Often organizations adapt and survive without fully satisfying most of their members, as has been the case with the United Nations since 1970. "When Knowledge Is Power" is a wide-ranging work that will elicit interest from political scientists, organization theorists, bureaucrats, and students of management and international administration.