• List of Tables and Figures


• List of Abbreviations


• Notes on Contributors


• Acknowledgements by the Editors


• Preface by the OECD Secretary-General


• 1: Kerstin Martens and Anja P. Jakobi: Introduction: The OECD as an Actor in International Politics


• 2: Morten Ougaard: The OECD's Global Role: Agenda Setting and Policy Diffusion


• Part I: Core Areas of OECD Activity


• 3: Richard Woodward: The OECD and Economic Governance: Invisibility and Impotence?


• 4: Robert T. Kudrle: Tax Policy in the OECD: Soft Governance Gets Harder


• 5: Tony Porter: The OECD and Global Finance: The Governance of New Issues: New Actors and New Financial Frontiers


• 6: Kerstin Jacobsson and Niklas Noaksson: From Deregulation to Flexicurity? The Makeover of the OECD Jobs Strategy


• 7: Anja P. Jakobi: The OECD and Crime: The Fight Against Corruption and Money Laundering


• Part II: Complementary Areas of OECD Activities


• 8: Anja P. Jakobi and Kerstin Martens: Expanding and Intensifying Governance:The OECD in Education Policy


• 9: Alexandra Kaasch: A New Global Health Actor? The OECD's Careful Guidance of National Health Care Systems


• 10: Rianne Mahon: Learning, Forgetting, Rediscovering: Producing the OECD's 'New' Family Policy


• 11: Monique Centrone: The OECD as Ideas Diffuser: The Growth of the Global Biotechnology Industry


• 12: Janna Teltemann: The Activities of the OECD in International Migration: How to become a Relevant Actor in an Emerging Policy Field


• 13: Anja P. Jakobi and Kerstin Martens: Conclusion: Findings, Implications and Outlook of OECD Governance 490


• Index

Kerstin Martens is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her research interests include international organizations, soft governance, and education policy.
Anja P. Jakobi is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF/HSFK). Her main research interests are world politics, international organizations and global political change, in particular in the fields of security, crime, education and social policy.

Mechanisms of OECD Governance analyses the influential but under-studied Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It explores its role in political processes through various case studies in a variety of policy fields and provides a current and wide-ranging analysis of this organization.