CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Radcliffe, Sarah Elizabeth |
|---|---|
| Title | Integrity Management Systems in International Organization- The Case of the UN Ethics Office |
| Summary | This research investigates the suggestion that the launch of the UN Ethics Office in 2006 represented a ‘culture change’ in ethics management for the international organisation. The influence of ideas upon the development of the office, in particular the dominant public sector ethics discourse of ‘integrity’, is assessed. Taking a discursive institutionalist approach to institutional change, it is asked whether ideas were constitutive to the creation and mandate of the UN Ethics Office. Tracing the process of change within the UN, evidence is sought in support of two alternative explanations for the ethics reform: one favouring the role of external shocks on existing institutions (chiefly, the ‘Oil for Food’ scandal); the other emphasising the independent, causal role of ideas which had been embedded in new trajectory of reform activities. The analysis finds most support for the former explanation- ideas exerted independent influence in the reform process, but did not play a constitutive role in the creation and mandate of the UN Ethics Office. |
| Supervisor | Agnes Batory |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/radcliffe_sarah.pdf |
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