Replication data for: Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations
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| Title: | Replication data for: Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations |
| Date: | 9 October 2024 |
| Creator: |
Lang, Valentin  ORCID: 0000-0002-5719-418X ; Kentikelenis, Alexandros ; Wellner, Lukas
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| Divisions: | School of Social Sciences > Internat. Political Economy and Development (Juniorprofessur) (Lang 2020-) |
| DDC Classification: |
320 Political science |
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| Abstract: | This article advances a novel argument about the policy output of international organizations (IOs) by highlighting the role of individual staffers. We approach them as purposive actors carrying heterogeneous ideological biases that materially shape their policy choices on the job. Pursuing this argument with an empirical focus on the International Monetary Fund (IMF), we collected individual-level information on the careers of 835 IMF “mission chiefs”—staffers with primary responsibility for a particular member state—and matched them to newly-coded data on more than 15,000 IMF-mandated policy conditions over the 1980–2016 period. Leveraging the appointment of the same mission chief to different countries throughout their career, we find that individual staffers influence the number, scope, and content of IMF conditions according to their personal ideological biases. These results contribute to our understanding of the micro-foundations behind IO output, and have implications for the accountability and legitimacy of IOs. (English) |
| External Identifier for Data: | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IPGCTN |
| URL: | https://madata.bib.uni-mannheim.de/686/ |
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| Access (Controlled): | Only Metadata |
| License (Controlled): | No license information available, not specified, or non-standard license |
| Related Publication(s) in MADOC: | Lang, Valentin und Wellner, Lukas und Kentikelenis, Alexandros (2024), Biased bureaucrats and the policies of international organizations |
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| Notes: | This dataset underwent an independent verification process, complying with the AJPS Verification Policy updated June 2023, which replicated the tables and figures in the primary article. For the supplementary materials, verification was performed solely for the successful execution of the code. The verification process was carried out by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences at Cornell University. The associated article has been awarded the Open Materials Badge. Learn more about the Open Practice Badges from the Center for Open Science. |
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| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2026 08:05 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2026 08:05 |
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