André Broome
Biographic Data
| ID | 4075214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | André Broome |
| GIVEN NAMES | André |
| FAMILY NAME | Broome |
| SIGNATURE | BROOME A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0769-4952 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 349 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks
This article explores how for‐profit consultancies mediate knowledge about global benchmarks in developing countries. Drawing on the case of the Ease of Doing Business rankings, published annually by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation between 2005 and 2019, it examines the role consultancies play as knowledge brokers connecting global benchmarks produced by intergovernmental organizations to regulatory reform programs undert…
Recursive recognition in the international political economy
How are the tools that govern the world economy legitimated? Here we discuss how governance tools - such as policy scripts, templates, and benchmarks - are developed to contain particular types of knowledge. Such tools contain blueprints of how the world economy should work. Understanding how they are produced and legitimated is important if we are to comprehend how they replicate particular bodies of knowledge, policy languages, and norms. We su…
Bad science: International organizations and the indirect power of global benchmarking
The production of transnational knowledge that is widely recognized as legitimate is a major source of influence for international organizations. To reinforce their expert status, international organizations increasingly produce global benchmarks that measure national performance across a range of issue areas. This article illustrates how international organization benchmarking is a significant source of indirect power in world politics by examin…
Seeing Like an International Organization
Governing the world at a distance: The practice of global benchmarking
Benchmarking practices have rapidly diffused throughout the globe in recent years. This can be traced to their popularity amongst non-state actors, such as civil society organisations and corporate actors, as well as states and international organisations (IOs). Benchmarks serve to both ‘neutralise’ and ‘universalise’ a range of overlapping normative values and agendas, including freedom of speech, democracy, human development, environmental prot…
The politics of numbers: The normative agendas of global benchmarking
Global benchmarks have grown exponentially over the last two decades, having been both applied to and developed by states, international organisations, corporations, and non-governmental organisations. As a consequence, global benchmarking is now firmly established as a distinct mode of transnational governance. Benchmarking chiefly involves the development of comparative metrics of performance, which typically take the form of highly stylised co…
Shaping Policy Curves: Cognitive Authority in Transnational Capacity Building
International organizations ( IOs ) such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are assumed to rely on ‘sympathetic interlocutors’ at the national level to drive through economic reforms that conform to global policy norms. In this article we answer the following question: How do sympathetic interlocutors for IOs emerge in the first place? We address this question by examining how IOs engage in teaching norms to national officials …
Back to Basics: The Great Recession and the Narrowing of IMF Policy Advice
This article contributes to the literature on the dynamics of change and continuity in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) policy paradigm. The IMF embarked on a process of “streamlining conditionality” during the 2000s, but many observers have argued that the IMF's policy paradigm from the 1990s remains intact. This article examines whether the scope of the IMF's policy advice to borrowers during the Great Recession narrowed in comparison …
Seeing Like an International Organization
The politics of IMF–EU co-operation: Institutional change from the Maastricht Treaty to the launch of the euro
How do regional changes affect the process of global governance? This article addresses this question by examining how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) responded to the challenges presented by Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) between the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and the launch of the euro in 1999. Based on primary research from the IMF archives, the article illustrates how the IMF's efforts to reconfigure its relationship wi…
Global Governance and the Politics of Crisis
The notion of global governance has always been intimately linked to that of crisis. In recent crisis episodes the architecture of global governance has been held responsible for weak or ineffective regulatory mechanisms that failed to either prevent systemic crises or to at least give an “early warning” of impending disasters, while in other episodes global governance institutions have been blamed for poor crisis responses and management. Global…
Seeing like an International Organisation
International organisations (IOs) often serve as the ‘engine room’ of ideas for structural reforms at the national level, but how do IOs construct cognitive authority over the forms, processes and prescriptions for institutional change in their member states? Exploring the analytic institutions created by IOs provides insights into how they make their member states ‘legible’ and how greater legibility enables them to construct cognitive authority…
Negotiating Crisis: The IMF and Disaster Capitalism in Small States
How do small states use international organisations to manage the consequences of exogenous shocks? This article examines this question through exploring how small states negotiate with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for crisis management support during a period of ‘disaster capitalism’. Focusing on the case of Iceland, the article argues that while small states can potentially build scale economies in specialist sectors such as banking, t…
Hegemonic Instability and East Asia: Contradictions, Crises and US Power
One of the most influential theories in international political economy is that hegemonic power generally and the actions of the US in particular have been essential forces for stability in the international system. Yet even before the current financial crisis that has its origins in the US there were grounds for questioning this claim. Now the argument looks increasingly implausible. The essence of our argument in this article is that the US's h…
The Joint Vienna Institute
How does the intellectual role played by international training organisations fit into the contemporary architecture of global governance? The international diffusion of economic policy ideas represents one of the core dimensions of contemporary global governance, which has generated heated controversy in recent years with international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank castigated for championing a ‘one…
The International Monetary Fund, crisis management and the credit crunch
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become one of the most controversial international institutions in history. The IMF's crisis management responsibilities expanded via its involvement with a series of international economic crises during the last three decades, which led to widespread calls for radical reform of the organisation in the aftermath of the emerging market crises of the 1990s. This article examines the IMF's initial response t…
Money for nothing: Everyday actors and monetary crises
When do NGOs Matter? Activist Organisations as a Source of Change in the International Debt Regime
Who drives change in international economic regimes? While mainstream International Political Economy scholarship has traditionally focused on the major players within states and markets as the key sources of political and economic change, recent studies have sought to highlight the important role that is also played by a wider range of social actors. A common point of reference here is the activities undertaken by non-governmental organisations …
Neoliberalism and Financial Change: The Evolution of Residential Capitalism in New Zealand
The Importance of Being Earnest: The IMF as a Reputational Intermediary
My thanks go to three anonymous NPE reviewers for their detailed and insightful criticisms and suggestions. My thanks also go to John Ravenhill, Leonard Seabrooke and Ryan Walter for their critical and constructive feedback on earlier drafts of this article. I am grateful to Madonna Gaudette, Clare Huang, Premela Isaac and Jean Marcoyeux in the International Monetary Fund Archives, Washington D.C., for their research assistance during numerous vi…
The IMF and Experimentalist Governance in Small Western States
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization charged with the responsibility to observe governance experiments to enhance institutional competitiveness in its member states. While the IMF's role in propagating certain forms of institutional competitiveness in developing economies is commonly discussed, less emphasis has been placed on how the IMF seeks to transfer policy knowledge, and to learn from, the governance of institutional co…
Watching from the sidelines? The decline of the IMF's crisis management role
This article compares the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s crisis management role during the Asian financial crisis in 1997–98 with the role it has played during the 'credit crunch' which emerged in the wake of the subprime crisis in the United States. With prominent calls for the construction of new forms of global financial governance to prevent a recurrence of the subprime crisis in the future, we explore how the designated guardian of the …
Seeing like the IMF: Institutional change in small open economies
The International Monetary Fund spends most of its time monitoring its member states' economic performance and advising on institutional change. While much of the literature sees the Fund as a policy enforcer in ‘emerging market’ and ‘frontier’ economies, little attention has been paid to exploring the Fund's bilateral surveillance of its Western member states. This article proposes that ‘seeing like the IMF’ provides a dynamic view of how the Fu…
Seeing like an International Organisation
International organisations (IOs) often serve as the ‘engine room’ of ideas for structural reforms at the national level, but how do IOs construct cognitive authority over the forms, processes and prescriptions for institutional change in their member states? Exploring the analytic institutions created by IOs provides insights into how they make their member states ‘legible’ and how greater legibility enables them to construct cognitive authority…
Shaping Policy Curves: Cognitive Authority in Transnational Capacity Building
International organizations ( IOs ) such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are assumed to rely on ‘sympathetic interlocutors’ at the national level to drive through economic reforms that conform to global policy norms. In this article we answer the following question: How do sympathetic interlocutors for IOs emerge in the first place? We address this question by examining how IOs engage in teaching norms to national officials …
Seeing like the IMF: Institutional change in small open economies
The International Monetary Fund spends most of its time monitoring its member states' economic performance and advising on institutional change. While much of the literature sees the Fund as a policy enforcer in ‘emerging market’ and ‘frontier’ economies, little attention has been paid to exploring the Fund's bilateral surveillance of its Western member states. This article proposes that ‘seeing like the IMF’ provides a dynamic view of how the Fu…
Governing the world at a distance: The practice of global benchmarking
Benchmarking practices have rapidly diffused throughout the globe in recent years. This can be traced to their popularity amongst non-state actors, such as civil society organisations and corporate actors, as well as states and international organisations (IOs). Benchmarks serve to both ‘neutralise’ and ‘universalise’ a range of overlapping normative values and agendas, including freedom of speech, democracy, human development, environmental prot…
Back to Basics: The Great Recession and the Narrowing of IMF Policy Advice
This article contributes to the literature on the dynamics of change and continuity in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) policy paradigm. The IMF embarked on a process of “streamlining conditionality” during the 2000s, but many observers have argued that the IMF's policy paradigm from the 1990s remains intact. This article examines whether the scope of the IMF's policy advice to borrowers during the Great Recession narrowed in comparison …
Bad science: International organizations and the indirect power of global benchmarking
The production of transnational knowledge that is widely recognized as legitimate is a major source of influence for international organizations. To reinforce their expert status, international organizations increasingly produce global benchmarks that measure national performance across a range of issue areas. This article illustrates how international organization benchmarking is a significant source of indirect power in world politics by examin…
The Importance of Being Earnest: The IMF as a Reputational Intermediary
My thanks go to three anonymous NPE reviewers for their detailed and insightful criticisms and suggestions. My thanks also go to John Ravenhill, Leonard Seabrooke and Ryan Walter for their critical and constructive feedback on earlier drafts of this article. I am grateful to Madonna Gaudette, Clare Huang, Premela Isaac and Jean Marcoyeux in the International Monetary Fund Archives, Washington D.C., for their research assistance during numerous vi…
The International Monetary Fund, crisis management and the credit crunch
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become one of the most controversial international institutions in history. The IMF's crisis management responsibilities expanded via its involvement with a series of international economic crises during the last three decades, which led to widespread calls for radical reform of the organisation in the aftermath of the emerging market crises of the 1990s. This article examines the IMF's initial response t…
Recursive recognition in the international political economy
How are the tools that govern the world economy legitimated? Here we discuss how governance tools - such as policy scripts, templates, and benchmarks - are developed to contain particular types of knowledge. Such tools contain blueprints of how the world economy should work. Understanding how they are produced and legitimated is important if we are to comprehend how they replicate particular bodies of knowledge, policy languages, and norms. We su…
The politics of numbers: The normative agendas of global benchmarking
Global benchmarks have grown exponentially over the last two decades, having been both applied to and developed by states, international organisations, corporations, and non-governmental organisations. As a consequence, global benchmarking is now firmly established as a distinct mode of transnational governance. Benchmarking chiefly involves the development of comparative metrics of performance, which typically take the form of highly stylised co…
Global Governance and the Politics of Crisis
The notion of global governance has always been intimately linked to that of crisis. In recent crisis episodes the architecture of global governance has been held responsible for weak or ineffective regulatory mechanisms that failed to either prevent systemic crises or to at least give an “early warning” of impending disasters, while in other episodes global governance institutions have been blamed for poor crisis responses and management. Global…
The politics of IMF–EU co-operation: Institutional change from the Maastricht Treaty to the launch of the euro
How do regional changes affect the process of global governance? This article addresses this question by examining how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) responded to the challenges presented by Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) between the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and the launch of the euro in 1999. Based on primary research from the IMF archives, the article illustrates how the IMF's efforts to reconfigure its relationship wi…
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks
This article explores how for‐profit consultancies mediate knowledge about global benchmarks in developing countries. Drawing on the case of the Ease of Doing Business rankings, published annually by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation between 2005 and 2019, it examines the role consultancies play as knowledge brokers connecting global benchmarks produced by intergovernmental organizations to regulatory reform programs undert…
The IMF and Experimentalist Governance in Small Western States
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization charged with the responsibility to observe governance experiments to enhance institutional competitiveness in its member states. While the IMF's role in propagating certain forms of institutional competitiveness in developing economies is commonly discussed, less emphasis has been placed on how the IMF seeks to transfer policy knowledge, and to learn from, the governance of institutional co…
Watching from the sidelines? The decline of the IMF's crisis management role
This article compares the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s crisis management role during the Asian financial crisis in 1997–98 with the role it has played during the 'credit crunch' which emerged in the wake of the subprime crisis in the United States. With prominent calls for the construction of new forms of global financial governance to prevent a recurrence of the subprime crisis in the future, we explore how the designated guardian of the …
Negotiating Crisis: The IMF and Disaster Capitalism in Small States
How do small states use international organisations to manage the consequences of exogenous shocks? This article examines this question through exploring how small states negotiate with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for crisis management support during a period of ‘disaster capitalism’. Focusing on the case of Iceland, the article argues that while small states can potentially build scale economies in specialist sectors such as banking, t…
Hegemonic Instability and East Asia: Contradictions, Crises and US Power
One of the most influential theories in international political economy is that hegemonic power generally and the actions of the US in particular have been essential forces for stability in the international system. Yet even before the current financial crisis that has its origins in the US there were grounds for questioning this claim. Now the argument looks increasingly implausible. The essence of our argument in this article is that the US's h…
The Joint Vienna Institute
How does the intellectual role played by international training organisations fit into the contemporary architecture of global governance? The international diffusion of economic policy ideas represents one of the core dimensions of contemporary global governance, which has generated heated controversy in recent years with international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank castigated for championing a ‘one…
Money for nothing: Everyday actors and monetary crises
When do NGOs Matter? Activist Organisations as a Source of Change in the International Debt Regime
Who drives change in international economic regimes? While mainstream International Political Economy scholarship has traditionally focused on the major players within states and markets as the key sources of political and economic change, recent studies have sought to highlight the important role that is also played by a wider range of social actors. A common point of reference here is the activities undertaken by non-governmental organisations …
Neoliberalism and Financial Change: The Evolution of Residential Capitalism in New Zealand
Seeing like the IMF: Institutional change in small open economies
The International Monetary Fund spends most of its time monitoring its member states' economic performance and advising on institutional change. While much of the literature sees the Fund as a policy enforcer in ‘emerging market’ and ‘frontier’ economies, little attention has been paid to exploring the Fund's bilateral surveillance of its Western member states. This article proposes that ‘seeing like the IMF’ provides a dynamic view of how the Fu…
Neoliberalism and Financial Change: The Evolution of Residential Capitalism in New Zealand
The Importance of Being Earnest: The IMF as a Reputational Intermediary
My thanks go to three anonymous NPE reviewers for their detailed and insightful criticisms and suggestions. My thanks also go to John Ravenhill, Leonard Seabrooke and Ryan Walter for their critical and constructive feedback on earlier drafts of this article. I am grateful to Madonna Gaudette, Clare Huang, Premela Isaac and Jean Marcoyeux in the International Monetary Fund Archives, Washington D.C., for their research assistance during numerous vi…
The IMF and Experimentalist Governance in Small Western States
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization charged with the responsibility to observe governance experiments to enhance institutional competitiveness in its member states. While the IMF's role in propagating certain forms of institutional competitiveness in developing economies is commonly discussed, less emphasis has been placed on how the IMF seeks to transfer policy knowledge, and to learn from, the governance of institutional co…
Watching from the sidelines? The decline of the IMF's crisis management role
This article compares the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s crisis management role during the Asian financial crisis in 1997–98 with the role it has played during the 'credit crunch' which emerged in the wake of the subprime crisis in the United States. With prominent calls for the construction of new forms of global financial governance to prevent a recurrence of the subprime crisis in the future, we explore how the designated guardian of the …
Money for nothing: Everyday actors and monetary crises
When do NGOs Matter? Activist Organisations as a Source of Change in the International Debt Regime
Who drives change in international economic regimes? While mainstream International Political Economy scholarship has traditionally focused on the major players within states and markets as the key sources of political and economic change, recent studies have sought to highlight the important role that is also played by a wider range of social actors. A common point of reference here is the activities undertaken by non-governmental organisations …
Hegemonic Instability and East Asia: Contradictions, Crises and US Power
One of the most influential theories in international political economy is that hegemonic power generally and the actions of the US in particular have been essential forces for stability in the international system. Yet even before the current financial crisis that has its origins in the US there were grounds for questioning this claim. Now the argument looks increasingly implausible. The essence of our argument in this article is that the US's h…
The Joint Vienna Institute
How does the intellectual role played by international training organisations fit into the contemporary architecture of global governance? The international diffusion of economic policy ideas represents one of the core dimensions of contemporary global governance, which has generated heated controversy in recent years with international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank castigated for championing a ‘one…
The International Monetary Fund, crisis management and the credit crunch
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become one of the most controversial international institutions in history. The IMF's crisis management responsibilities expanded via its involvement with a series of international economic crises during the last three decades, which led to widespread calls for radical reform of the organisation in the aftermath of the emerging market crises of the 1990s. This article examines the IMF's initial response t…
Seeing like an International Organisation
International organisations (IOs) often serve as the ‘engine room’ of ideas for structural reforms at the national level, but how do IOs construct cognitive authority over the forms, processes and prescriptions for institutional change in their member states? Exploring the analytic institutions created by IOs provides insights into how they make their member states ‘legible’ and how greater legibility enables them to construct cognitive authority…
Negotiating Crisis: The IMF and Disaster Capitalism in Small States
How do small states use international organisations to manage the consequences of exogenous shocks? This article examines this question through exploring how small states negotiate with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for crisis management support during a period of ‘disaster capitalism’. Focusing on the case of Iceland, the article argues that while small states can potentially build scale economies in specialist sectors such as banking, t…
Global Governance and the Politics of Crisis
The notion of global governance has always been intimately linked to that of crisis. In recent crisis episodes the architecture of global governance has been held responsible for weak or ineffective regulatory mechanisms that failed to either prevent systemic crises or to at least give an “early warning” of impending disasters, while in other episodes global governance institutions have been blamed for poor crisis responses and management. Global…
The politics of IMF–EU co-operation: Institutional change from the Maastricht Treaty to the launch of the euro
How do regional changes affect the process of global governance? This article addresses this question by examining how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) responded to the challenges presented by Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) between the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 and the launch of the euro in 1999. Based on primary research from the IMF archives, the article illustrates how the IMF's efforts to reconfigure its relationship wi…
Seeing Like an International Organization
Governing the world at a distance: The practice of global benchmarking
Benchmarking practices have rapidly diffused throughout the globe in recent years. This can be traced to their popularity amongst non-state actors, such as civil society organisations and corporate actors, as well as states and international organisations (IOs). Benchmarks serve to both ‘neutralise’ and ‘universalise’ a range of overlapping normative values and agendas, including freedom of speech, democracy, human development, environmental prot…
The politics of numbers: The normative agendas of global benchmarking
Global benchmarks have grown exponentially over the last two decades, having been both applied to and developed by states, international organisations, corporations, and non-governmental organisations. As a consequence, global benchmarking is now firmly established as a distinct mode of transnational governance. Benchmarking chiefly involves the development of comparative metrics of performance, which typically take the form of highly stylised co…
Shaping Policy Curves: Cognitive Authority in Transnational Capacity Building
International organizations ( IOs ) such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are assumed to rely on ‘sympathetic interlocutors’ at the national level to drive through economic reforms that conform to global policy norms. In this article we answer the following question: How do sympathetic interlocutors for IOs emerge in the first place? We address this question by examining how IOs engage in teaching norms to national officials …
Back to Basics: The Great Recession and the Narrowing of IMF Policy Advice
This article contributes to the literature on the dynamics of change and continuity in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) policy paradigm. The IMF embarked on a process of “streamlining conditionality” during the 2000s, but many observers have argued that the IMF's policy paradigm from the 1990s remains intact. This article examines whether the scope of the IMF's policy advice to borrowers during the Great Recession narrowed in comparison …
Seeing Like an International Organization
Bad science: International organizations and the indirect power of global benchmarking
The production of transnational knowledge that is widely recognized as legitimate is a major source of influence for international organizations. To reinforce their expert status, international organizations increasingly produce global benchmarks that measure national performance across a range of issue areas. This article illustrates how international organization benchmarking is a significant source of indirect power in world politics by examin…
Recursive recognition in the international political economy
How are the tools that govern the world economy legitimated? Here we discuss how governance tools - such as policy scripts, templates, and benchmarks - are developed to contain particular types of knowledge. Such tools contain blueprints of how the world economy should work. Understanding how they are produced and legitimated is important if we are to comprehend how they replicate particular bodies of knowledge, policy languages, and norms. We su…
Gaming country rankings: Consultancies as knowledge brokers for global benchmarks
This article explores how for‐profit consultancies mediate knowledge about global benchmarks in developing countries. Drawing on the case of the Ease of Doing Business rankings, published annually by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation between 2005 and 2019, it examines the role consultancies play as knowledge brokers connecting global benchmarks produced by intergovernmental organizations to regulatory reform programs undert…
Economics (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Politics (15 works) · International Development and Aid (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Finance (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Management (7 works)