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

财富，即财政资源，可以说是公共政策制定的最关键工具。最近的学术研究突显了国际公共政策的资金筹措正在发生怎样的变化。值得注意的事态发展包括：对自愿捐款的依赖日益增加；国际信托基金的增加；以及私营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部门如何应对日益复杂的国际政策筹资问题知之甚少。在此背景下，本项目(参考资料)提出了三个主要相关问题。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层面和组织领域内，关键的资源管理战略是什么？第三，影响战略选择的因素是什么？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，辅之以组织社会学和公共管理的见解。这些学科将注意力集中在：(I)投资促进机构的代理、其组织自身利益和政策优先事项，但这些优先事项受到成员国原则的制约；(Ii)投资促进机构必须在其中采取行动的公共和私人、国家和国际组织的组织间领域；(Iii)对资源调动战略有重大影响的组织、政策相关因素和情况因素；以及(Iv)财富与实现组织和政策目标之间的联系。该项目寻求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--调动资源，从而增进知识。这一政策领域特别具有启发性，因为难民政策机构长期参与难民政策，可以在较长一段时间内和在不同情况下进行观察；因为难民政策高度依赖财富，往往需要快速的难民政策，但也需要长期的、甚至无限期的业务或政策制定活动；以及因为影响难民政策管理战略的组织、政策相关和情况因素预计会随时间和所研究的案件而变化。总之，资源，虽然是在申请人先前关于在时间项目内对投资政策机构进行预算编制的工作的基础上，但涉及几个重点的决定性转变：从行政预算到政策机构在调动资源方面的作用；从分析不同的投资促进机构到考虑组织领域内的投资促进机构；从一般预算编制程序到为特定政策领域提供资源，即难民政策；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.