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International executives : transformative bureaucracies or Westphalian orders?

2004

Public Administration is in an era of change. This paper studies one under-researched part of public administration, the executive arms of International Governmental Organizations (IGOs). These are referred to as International Executives (IEs) and provide a conceptual mapping and empirical illustrations of three important dynamics of IEs – intergovernmental, supranational and transgovernmental dynamics. The paper offers a middle-range organization theory perspective that suggests five independent variables that affect the behavior and roles of IE civil servants. The variables are (i) the organizational properties of IEs, (ii) the degrees of institutionalization of IEs, (iii) the recruitment…

Re-discovering international executive institutions

2004

Public Administration is in an era of change. This article aims at re-discovering one underresearched part of public administration, the executive arms of International Governmental Organizations (IGOs). These are referred to as International Executives (IEs). The article provides a conceptual mapping and an empirical illustration of three important dynamics of IEs – intergovernmental, supranational and transgovernmental dynamics. The study also offers a middle-range organization theory perspective that suggests five independent variables that foster the advent of supranational and transgovernmental behavior and roles among IE civil servants. The variables suggested are (H1) the organizatio…

Transnational Mediated Commemoration of Migrant Deaths at the Borders of Europe

2019

To vote or not to vote? Migrant electoral (dis)engagement in an enlarged Europe

2021

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. External voting by nonresident citizens has become an important feature of contemporary democratic politics. However, compared to the average voter in domestic elections, we still know significantly less about migrants’ motivations to vote or not. Whereas analyses of external voting patterns offer insights into the results of external voting compared to origin populations, there is a lacuna of knowledge about why migran…

Somali diaspora in Finland : assistance of the country of origin

2005

Vom Kosmopoliten zum Kosmo-Polen. Zur transkulturellen Identität Artur Beckers an Hand seines essayistischen Werks

2017

This paper focuses on essays of Artur Becker, an author of Polish origin who writes mostly in German. Using his newspaper articles and recently published collection of essays: Kosmopolen, the author of this paper tries to outline a m odern transcultural identity. The starting point for further analysis is how the writer is perceived in the public sphere, and his attitude to his m other tongue (Polish) and literary language (German). In the context of growing importance of the so-called intercultural literaturę in the German-speaking area - from the niche position of the Gastarbeiter literaturę to the media resonance of works by authors who were awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize -, Art…

Transnational responsibilities and multi-sited strategies : voluntary associations of Somali diaspora in Finland

2013