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Murdoch, Zuzana, Kassim, Hussein 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7603-8377, Connolly, Sara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6714-3493 and Geys, Benny
(2019)
Do international institutions matter? Socialization and international bureaucrats.
European Journal of International Relations, 25 (3).
pp. 852-877.
ISSN 1354-0661
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Abstract
A key component of (neo-)functionalist and constructivist approaches to the study of international organizations concerns staff socialization. Existing analyses of how, or indeed whether, staff develop more pro-internationalist attitudes over time draw predominantly on cross-sectional data. Yet, such data cannot address (self-)selection issues or capture the inherently temporal nature of attitude change. This article proposes an innovative approach to the study of international socialization using an explicitly longitudinal design. Analysing two waves of a large-scale survey conducted within the European Commission in 2008 and 2014, it examines the beliefs and values of the same individuals over time and exploits exogenous organizational changes to identify causal effects. Furthermore, the article theorizes and assesses specified scope conditions affecting socialization processes. Showing that international institutions do, in fact, influence value acquisition by individual bureaucrats, our results contest the widely held view that international organizations are not a socializing environment. Our analysis also demonstrates that age at entry and gender significantly affect the intensity of such value change.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | socialization,international organizations,european commission,civil servants,international bureaucrats |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Employment Systems and Institutions Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Research on Children and Families |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2018 16:30 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 09:50 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69166 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1354066118809156 |
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