Legislating International Organization The US Congress, the IMF, and the World Bank

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• Author(s)
  Kathryn C. Lavelle
• Publisher
  Oxford University Press
• Format
  PDF
• Print ISBN
  9780199765348, 0199765340
• eText ISBN
  9780199765348, 0199765340
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  In Legislating International Organization, Kathryn Lavelle argues against the commonly-held idea that key international organizations are entities unto themselves, immune from the influence and pressures of individual states’ domestic policies. Covering the history of the IMF and World Bank from their origins, she shows that domestic political constituencies in advanced industrial states have always been important drivers of international financial institution policy. This book will reshape how we think about how the US Congress interacts with international institutions and more broadly about the relationship of domestic politics to global governance throughout the world.