Rianne Mahon and Stephen McBride, eds. 2009. The OECD and Transnational Governance
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Critical scholars have focussed attention on many of the powerful formal institutions of transnational governance, such as the UN, WTO, IMF, World Bank, NAFTA, EU, and NATO, but the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) tended to slip through the cracks of critical analysis.Mahon and McBride help fill this gap in the critical literature.The contributors, hailing from various disciplines, apply diverse perspectives and methodologies to provide a multi-faceted examination of how the OECD exercises power in the emerging global system of transnational governance.The authors' range of postmodern and Marxist critiques, tied together by an underlying neo-Gramscian framework, overcome perceptions of interdisciplinary/inter-perspective incommensurability to provide a much fuller picture of the OECD than any one perspective alone could provide.The cryptic title hardly indicates how well the authors unveil the inner workings of the OECD and explain its role as a key nodal site within the expanding power matrix of transnational governance that is responsible for neoliberal globalization.Furthermore, several contributors also point to an emerging alternative paradigm, described as 'inclusive liberalism.'The book is of obvious interest to scholars of International Relations, International Political Economy and Policy and Administration Studies.Nonetheless, the chapter by McBride, McNutt and Williams analysing how the OECD develops labour policy and transmits these ideas to member states and Grinvald's case study of this process at work in Denmark should be of particular interest to scholars of Labour Studies.Scholars of Women's and Gender Studies as well as Labour Studies will find Mahon's analysis of the OECD's Babies and Bosses policy of interest.Of further specific interest to scholars of various disciplines are chapters analysing OECD policy-making regarding: the licensing of genetic inventions by Drouillard and Gold, social and health policy by Deacon and Kaasch, and education by Rubenson.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.011 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".