From expert authority to policy transfer. How and under which conditions does IPA policy advice matter?

在研究股的第一阶段，我们发现，国际公共行政机构的专家权威在各国际公共行政机构、不同政策领域和不同国家之间有所不同。鉴于专家权威被视为投资促进机构独立影响力的一个主要来源，我们预计，在将专家权威赋予投资促进机构方面观察到的跨国差异将影响投资促进机构对国内决策的影响。因此，根据现有的研究差距，拟议的研究项目询问并探讨投资促进机构的专家权威在何种程度上、在何种条件下以及专家权威如何影响各国通过采取政策、建立行政安排或创建机构来自愿遵循投资促进机构的政策咨询意见的决定。如果做出了这样的决定，最好将其归结为从投资促进机构向国家成功和自愿的政策转让，因为政策转让通常被理解为一个组织的政策、行政安排或机构的知识被用于制定另一个组织的政策、行政安排或机构的过程。我们的研究设计是以x为中心的，并且是比较的。在对经济合作与发展组织(OECD)和世界银行的比较分析中，我们结合了定量和定性的研究方法，包括统计分析、跨案例比较和过程追踪。我们广泛借鉴概念，并使用第一阶段的大部分数据和发现。在三个相互关联的分析步骤中的第一个步骤中，该项目将衡量(不同级别的)专家权威对投资促进机构接触国家政策制定者的影响，因为这可能是从专家权威到成功的政策转移的因果路径的第一步。在第二步中，该项目将确定专家权威影响成功的政策转让的程度和条件。在第三步中，我们使用四个国家的深入案例研究来研究投资促进机构政策转移的潜在因果机制。总体而言，我们通过特别指出专家权威对国内决策和政策转让的影响，为研究股作出贡献。

In the first phase of the Research Unit, we found that the attributions of expert authority to international public administrations (IPAs) vary across IPAs, across policy areas and across states. Given that expert authority is regarded as a major source of an independent influence of IPAs, we expect the observed cross-national variations in attributions of expert authority to IPAs to affect the impact of IPAs on domestic policymaking. Therefore, and in light of existing research gaps, the proposed research project asks and explores to what extent, under which conditions and how expert authority of IPAs affects the decisions of states to voluntarily follow the policy advice of IPAs by adopting policies, establishing administrative arrangements or creating institutions. If such decisions are made, they are best captured as successful and voluntary policy transfers from IPAs to states, given that policy transfer is typically understood as a process in which knowledge about policies, administrative arrangements or institutions from one organisation is used in the development of policies, administrative arrangements or institutions in another organisation. Our research design is x-centred and comparative. We combine quantitative and qualitative research methods in the comparative analysis of the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank, including statistical analysis, cross-case comparisons and process tracing. We draw extensively on concepts and use a large portion of our data and findings from the first phase. In the first of the three interrelated analytical steps, the project will measure the effects of (varying levels of) expert authority on access of IPAs to national policy-makers, because this may be the first step in a causal pathway from expert authority to successful policy transfer. In the second step, the project will identify the extent to and conditions under which expert authority affects successful policy transfers. In the third step, we use in-depth case studies in four countries to study potential causal mechanisms of policy transfers by IPAs. Overall, we contribute to the Research Unit by singling out the effects of expert authority on domestic policymaking and policy transfers.