The OECD and Transnational Governance

Bringing together contributors from the fields of public policy and international relations, this volume, edited by Mahon (director, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton U., Canada) and McBride (director, Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser U., Canada), explores the role of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in transnational governance from different perspectives. Topics addressed in the volume's 14 papers include the orchestration of global knowledge networks, global public management reform, the relationship between the OECD and civil society, the activities of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee, the promotion of liberalized foreign investment rules, OECD urban policy, OECD ideas and Danish labor market policy, the OECD and the Canadian policy process, policy learning and the OECD's guidelines for the licensing of genetic inventions, the OECD's social and health policy, OECD education policies and world hegemony, and gender and the OECD's social policy discourse. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rianne Mahon is Chancellor's professor and Director of the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, Ottawa. Stephen McBride is a professor and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby.