The politics of IO performance: A

framework

Tamar Gutner and Alexander ThompsonPresented by Victoria Powell

Outline

IO literature addressing performance

Research strategies

Baselines

Lessons learned

Questions

Questions

Why is evaluating IO performance in the proposed manner beneficial?

How can you evaluate the performance of your given IOs using this method?

What are possible hindrances of you IOs performance?

Literature

Bureaucratic dysfunction

Rationalist literature

Regime effectiveness

Concept of Performance

What is Performance? Process and Outcome

Differences between Effectiveness and Performance

Challenges of IOP Analysis

IOs as complex entities

Expanding tasks

Eye of the beholder

Evaluation by IO themselves

International Arena itself

Metrics of IOP

Micro Intermediate Macro

•Narrow Functions•Highly contingent

•Political impacts•Behavior/Compliance

•Problem resolution•Welfare enhancement

Process-Based Outcome-Based

Pyramid of Performance

OUTCOMES

PROCESS

Impacts on

Central Problem

Specific Tasks, Policies, and Procedures

Outputs, Intermediate Political Goals

Sources of Performance

“Determination of GOOD and BAD performance.” Rational vs. Bureaucratic

Internal External

Social •Organizational culture•Leadership deficit

•Competing norms•Lack of consensus

Material •Inadequate staffing etc.•Self interest

•Power politics•Incoherent mandates•On the ground constraints

IOP Research Strategies

Framing the issue

Establish baseline

Specify indicators

Identify level/levels of analysis

Look at performance level and what is driving the outcome

Contributions

Baselines and beholders

Performance under anarchy

Secretariat Autonomy

Bureaucratic Incentives

…and More

Difficult mandates

Interdependence of global governors

Forest or the trees

Process vs outcomes

Questions

Why is evaluating IO performance in the proposed manner beneficial?

How can you evaluate the performance of your given IOs using this method? HINT: will you evaluate processes, end results

or a bit of both? What is your baseline?

What are possible hindrances of you IOs performance? HINT: These were on the previous slide.