Peacekeeping Reform: Managing Change in an Organized Anarchy
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Recent administrative reform initiatives at the UN Secretariat, including reforms of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), have reflected, and been formulated in the language of, models and standards drawn from the fields of management and public administration. Theories of rational design, principal-agent relations, sociological institutionalism, and garbage can processes offer divergent explanations for this phenomenon. Through a case study of the adoption of matrix management practices in the UN Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Field Support, this article investigate the process and mechanisms by which theoretical concepts, standards, and models of management in organisations, largely derived from the corporate world, are imported and applied to the peace operations bureaucracy. I argue that the establishment of Integrated Operational Teams (IOTs) in the UN Secretariat is consistent with a garbage can model of peacekeeping reform.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 it