In a recent evaluation, we found that the World Bank often makes strong and relevant convening contributions.
Too many events, however, have loosely defined goals and accomplish little besides meeting fatigue and wasted time and travel costs. International organizations routinely organize events to discuss important social, environmental, or public health problems. The world would be a better place if collective action were easy. Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley Friday, August 14, 2020 To convene successfully requires advanced organizational capabilities and deliberate efforts. While many organizations can organize events and conferences, fewer can do so in a way that leads to change. The G-20 Eminent Persons Group recognized the World Bank’s convening role when it suggested the World Bank play a coordinating and facilitating role among multilateral development banks on global public goods, and help make the multilateral development banks work more as a “system” with harmonized practices and procedures. These organizations stand to gain in reputation and stature as leaders of development. Because of mandate and capacities, some organizations are more obvious conveners on certain topics. Washington, DC: World Bank.ĭevelopment leadership requires strong convening capabilities. The World’s Bank: An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Global Convening. We define convening as “bringing together relevant actors to act collectively to address common challenges” (Figure 1). Convening, when successful, achieves such collective action.Ĭonvening is the art and science of fostering collective action. International development organizations need to collaborate and act collectively to develop effective solutions. This classic work on public choice will be of interest to theoreticians and graduate students in the fields of public choice, political economy, or political theory-and to those in other disciplines who are concerned with the problem of collective action in social contexts.Senior Evaluation Officer, Human Development and Corporate Programs - World BankĪddressing the health and economic fallout from the pandemic, vaccine development, climate change, financial contagion, infectious diseases, forest and biodiversity loss, overfishing, antimicrobial resistance, governance of artificial intelligence, and many other risks and challenges call for effective collaboration across national and organizational boundaries. These include movements important in American society in the past few decades-civil rights, the Vietnam War, women's rights, and environmental concerns. He uses three constructs of modern political economy-public goods, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and game theory-to test public choice theories against real world examples of collective action. In this book, Russell Hardin looks beyond the models to find out why people choose to act together in situations that the models find quite hopeless. Relying heavily on theoretical models of decision making, public choice postulates that people act in their individual interests in making collective decisions.Īs it happens, however, reality does not mirror theory, and people often act contrary to what the principal public choice models suggest.
Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand how people and societies make decisions affecting their collective lives.
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