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The Study of International Administration: Retrospect and Prospect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Walter R. Sharp
Walter R. Sharp
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Yale University
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Among the more significant international phenomena of the past generation has been the expanding role of administration in the proliferating intergovernmental agencies. The dimensions of international administration have increased in at least four ways: (1) in the number and variety of institutions at both the global and the regional level; (2) in the functional reaches of their operations—from strictly centralized and transnational to territorially deconcentrated and subnational activities (as, for example, in the UN technical assistance program, Unesco, NATO, and the European Coal and Steel Community)

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World Politics , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , October 1958 , pp. 103 - 117
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1958

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1 This total of $175 million of course does not include the capital funds available to the International Bank and Monetary Fund, amounting to several billions of dollars. It should also be noted that the new Common Market and Euratom “communities” are reportedly planning to recruit some 10,000 persons in various capacities.

2 Other volumes in this project include Arthur Mosher's, T.Technical Cooperation in Latin-American Agriculture (Chicago, 1957)Google Scholar and Maddox', James G.Technical Assistance by Religious Agencies in Latin-America (Chicago, 1956).Google Scholar Further volumes are announced.

3 For a cogent presentation of this point of view, cf. Stone, Donald C., “The Application of Scientific Management Principles to International Administration,” American Political Science Review, XLII, No. 5 (October 1948), pp. 915–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar