Julian Eckl
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Eckl
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Julian
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Item type:Publication, The political economy of consulting firms in reform processes: The case of the World Health OrganizationExisting research interprets the rise of consulting firms in intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) primarily as evidence of the global spread of managerialism. We highlight that consultants are not merely carriers of business-like world cultural norms, but also part of contentious IGO politics and governance. We unpack the consulting black box and reconstruct how consulting firms are hired and active in IGOs. Analyzing the experiences of the World Health Organization (WHO), we show how IGOs have been informally ‘opened up’ to consulting firms (and to their funders) and we investigate what the consequences of their privileged access are in practice. Consultants curate voices and input (including their own) into reform packages, promote certain contents, and engage in self-effacement practices that undermine accountability to stakeholders. The pivotal position of the consultants can have a disempowering effect on actors excluded from the consulting agreement or marginalized through consulting practices. We illustrate our general discussion by zooming in on the consultant-mediated reform of WHO’s Roll Back Malaria partnership in 2015. Our analysis is based on primary documents, key informant interviews, informal conversations, and participant observation.Type:journal articleJournal:Review of International Political EconomyScopus© Citations 30 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Football's contribution to international order: The ludic and festive reproduction of international society by world societal actors(2021)Scopus© Citations 10 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Focal times and spaces: How ethnography foregrounds the spatiotemporality of international organizations and global governance(2021)Drawing on a long-term political ethnography of sites of global health governance, the paper makes methodological and substantive contributions. First of all, it shows that ethnography induces researchers to experience international organizations (IOs) and global governance as spatiotemporal phenomena. This experience overlaps with the lived realities of practitioners and spotlights aspects that are otherwise easily overlooked. Both practitioners and ethnographers have to be in specific spaces at particular times. This practical challenge illustrates that there are focal times and spaces, which are linked to the cyclical and sited character of global health governance. These focal times and spaces provide an important coordination mechanism and ease the general flow of knowledge – within IOs and between IOs and their environment. However, there is also the constant danger that they develop a self-referential life of their own and become disconnected from other processes. Similarly, not just researchers but also practitioners are struggling to develop a comprehensive understanding of IOs since they experience them only partially and in specific settings. Thus, a spatiotemporal account highlights both overlooked links and unexpected disconnections. The conclusion mentions that the current – COVID-19-induced – mainstreaming of digital technologies will impact the spatiotemporal dimension of global health governance.Type:journal articleJournal:Global PolicyVolume:12Issue:S7Scopus© Citations 9 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Successful governance reform and its consequences: How the historical drive for shorter meetings and more time efficiency reverberates in contemporary World Health Assemblies(2017)The paper argues the working methods of the World Health Assembly (WHA) have been a recurrent object of reform discussions and that the vision that WHAs should become shorter has been a constant driver for them. It shows also how the vision of shorter WHAs was turned into reality and to what extent the consequences of these past reforms still reverberate today. With a view to the current debates, the paper suggests contemporary WHAs cannot be understood without considering past practices, and that some present problems are the (un)intended consequence of previous reforms. The paper concludes that reform is an inherent element of WHO governance: this kind of “self-reflection” will continue to be a time-consuming assignment for decision-makers also after the seventieth anniversary of the organization.Type:journal articleJournal:Global Health GovernanceVolume:11Issue:1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Geistige Eigentumsrechte - Motor oder Bremse der Wirtschaftsentwicklung?Type:journal articleJournal:WirtschaftsdienstVolume:88Issue:12 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Responsible Scholarship After Leaving the Veranda: Normative Issues Faced by Field Researchers-and Armchair ScientistsThe article deals with the normative lessons that political scientists can learn from ethnology's experiences with ethnography. Ethnographic methods like participant observation differ significantly from other methods since they explicitly blur the boundary between theory and practice; this blurring requires researchers to carefully evaluate their conflicting responsibilities to the people studied, to the scientific community, and to themselves. Many of the insights generated in ethnology are relevant for political scientists, too, especially for those political scientists who are prepared to "leave the veranda" and want to put ethnographic methods to use, but also for those who prefer to remain in the position of an "armchair" researcher.Type:journal articleJournal:International Political SociologyVolume:2Issue:3Scopus© Citations 26 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, North - South? Pitfalls of dividing the world by wordsThe phrase 'North - South divide' - as well as variations such as 'North - South gap' or 'North - South cleavage' - has become well established in public discourse and scholarly writing. The phrase, however, is highly problematic, as it is simplistic and as there is a substantial danger of misapprehending it for 'reality' as such. The indiscriminate usage of the phrase 'North - South divide' overlooks the ways in which words create and shape our understanding of the world, on which we, in turn, base our judgements and decisions. The aim of the present paper is to point out specific ways through which this linguistic distinction - as much as any other - shapes our conception of (social) reality. The paper is in two parts. In the first we will initially draw out some pitfalls that inhere in the notion of a 'North - South divide'qua notion, and then point to other pitfalls that relate to the usage of the expression. In the second part two case studies are presented to illustrate our arguments: one of them deals with China, the other with intellectual property rights.Type:journal articleJournal:Third World QuarterlyVolume:28Issue:1Scopus© Citations 51 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Differential treatment in WHO-channelled health financing after WHA76 (2023)(2024-04-05)In some international regimes, the role of differential treatment of “developing countries” is widely acknowledged. In particular, “Special and Differential Treatment” (SDT) is central to the trade regime while “Common but Differentiated Responsibilities” (CBDR) is fundamental to the climate regime. By contrast, in the health regime, the role of differential treatment has been systematically conceptualized and analyzed only more recently. Differential treatment in this regime is most clearly visible in the case of in WHO-channelled health financing, which is based on “Capacity, Willingness, and Need” (CWN). Unlike developments in the trade and climate regime, differential treatment has so far proven rather resilient in the health regime although some of its classic beneficiaries have meanwhile become so-called “rising powers”, which has led to controversies across regimes whether differential treatment needs to be adapted to these new realities. In 2023, the World Health Assembly (WHA76) passed key decisions on WHO financing. While these decisions were aimed at improving the financial sustainability of WHO, they have also implications for the current and future status of differential treatment. The paper draws on recent scholarship on differential treatment in the health regime to conceptualize and assess these implications.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Understanding the Proliferation of Data Dashboards in Global Governance: Concrete Steps for Analysing Changing Artifacts and Knowledge Practices(2024-02-09)In the recent past, publicly accessible data dashboards have proliferated in global governance. They have become a central means through which information and knowledge about the world and its problems are made available. Rather than looking at the world through them, the paper shows that data dashboards themselves warrant closer inspection and turns them into an object of study. Interpreting data dashboards as digital artifacts, such an analysis can account for their specific features and materiality as well as for the knowledge practices that have emerged around them. This in turn unveils how data dashboards change the way in which international organizations, states, and other actors alike represent, perceive, and address the world’s problems. After all, data dashboards constitute a specific form of communication and the messages they convey make some political responses more plausible than others. In addition to situating data dashboards in larger discussions on, for example, the quantification and datafication of global governance, the paper proposes concrete steps for an analysis of data dashboards and illustrates possible findings with a case study. While data dashboards have proliferated in various issue areas, the paper focuses on global health.Type:conference paper - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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