Resource Mobilisation in International Public Administrations: Strategies for the Financing of International Public Policy

财富，即财政资源，可以说是公共决策的最重要工具。最近的学术工作突出了国际公共政策的筹资正在发生的变化。值得注意的发展包括越来越多地依赖自愿捐款;国际信托基金的兴起;以及私人组织在资助国际政策方面的重要性。然而，我们对国际公共行政机构如何应对国际政策筹资日益复杂的情况知之甚少。在此背景下，本项目（资源）提出了三个主要的相互关联的问题。第一，投资促进机构在制定和执行资源调动战略以支持国际公共政策，特别是难民政策方面的作用是什么？第二，在个别投资促进机构一级和在组织领域内，有哪些关键的记录管理战略？第三，什么因素决定了战略的选择？资源的分析框架主要借鉴比较（国际）公共管理，国际关系和比较（国际）公共政策，并辅以组织社会学和公共管理的见解。这些纪律要求注意：（一）投资促进机构的代理、其组织自身利益和政策优先事项，但这些都受到成员国原则的制约;（二）投资促进机构必须在其中活动的公共和私人、国家和国际组织的组织间领域;（三）组织、政策相关和环境因素对资源调动战略的主要影响;以及（iv）财富与实现组织和政策目标之间的联系：该项目旨在通过关注投资促进机构如何在一个复杂的政策领域-难民政策-单独和跨越组织边界调动资源来增进知识。这一政策领域特别具有指导意义，因为投资促进机构长期参与难民政策，可以在很长一段时间内对各种情况进行观察;因为难民政策高度依赖财富，往往需要快速的RM，但也需要长期甚至无限期的业务或决策参与;因为影响RM战略的组织、政策相关和情境因素可能会随着时间的推移和所研究的案例而变化。总之，在申请人先前在TIME项目内就投资促进机构的预算编制工作的基础上，涉及几个决定性的重点转移：从行政预算编制到投资促进机构在调动资源方面的作用;从分析独立的投资促进机构到考虑组织领域内的投资促进机构;从一般预算编制过程到为某一特定政策领域，即难民政策提供资源;从行政结构和程序到与政策有关的行政战略。

Treasure, i.e. financial resources, is arguably the most critical tool of public policy-making. Recent scholarly work highlights how the financing of international public policy is changing. Notable developments include a growing reliance on voluntary contributions; the rise of international trust funds; and the importance of private organisations in financing international policies. However, we know little about how International Public Administrations (IPAs) have responded to the growing complexity in the financing of international policies. Against this background, this project (RESOURCE) asks three main interrelated questions. First, what is the role of IPAs in developing and implementing strategies of resource mobilisation (RM) in support of international public policy, with specific reference to refugee policy? Second, what are key RM strategies at the level of individual IPAs and within organisational fields? Third, what factors shape the choice of strategies?The analytical framework of RESOURCE draws principally on Comparative (International) Public Administration, International Relations, and Comparative (International) Public Policy, complemented by insights from Organisational Sociology and Public Management. These disciplines direct attention to (i) agency by IPAs, their organisational self-interests and policy priorities, which are, however, constrained by member-state principals; (ii) interorganisational fields of public and private, national and international organisations within which IPAs have to act; (iii) organisational, policy-related and situational factors as major influences on resource mobilisation strategies; and (iv) the linkage between treasure and the attainment of organisational and policy ambitions.The project seeks to advance knowledge by focusing on how IPAs, individually and across organisational boundaries, have mobilised resources in a complex policy domain: refugee policy. This policy domain is especially instructive because the long-standing involvement of IPAs in refugee policy allows observations over an extended period of time and across cases; because refugee policy is highly dependent on treasure, often with a need for rapid RM, but also long-term or even open-ended operational or policy-making engagement; and because organisational, policy-related and situational factors that influence RM strategies can be expected to vary over time and across the cases studied.In sum, RESOURCE, whilst building on the previous work of the applicants on budgeting in IPAs within the TIME project, involves several decisive shifts in focus: from administrative budgeting to the role of IPAs in mobilising resources; from the analysis of discrete IPAs to the consideration of IPAs within organisational fields; from generic budgeting processes to the resourcing of a particular policy domain, i.e. refugee policy; and from administrative structures and procedures to policy-related administrative strategies.