WHY CULTURE MATTERS IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: THE MARGINALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE WORLD BANK

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Sarfaty, Galit A.
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-9300
• DOI: 10.1017/S0002930000159810
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 647-683
• 关键词: administrative arrangements; Political control; CONSTRUCTION; STATES; POLICY; NORMS; POWER; form

摘要

Despite internal and external pressure, the World Bank has not adopted a human rights policy or agenda. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork at the Bank, this article analyzes its organizational culture and finds that such bureaucratic obstacles as the internal incentive system and a clash of expertise among the staff, especially differences between lawyers and economists on defining human rights and justifying their relevance to the Bank's mission, have impeded the internalization of human rights norms.