01486pab a2200157 454500008004000000100001400040245009100054260000900145300001500154520097200169650002601141773002601167909001101193999001901204952010501223180718b2017   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aEge, Jorn  aComparing the autonomy of international public administrations: an ideal-type approach  c2017  ap.555-570.  aInternational Public Administrations (IPAs), that is, the secretariats of international organizations, are important actors in global governance. This article develops a new typology of IPAs that captures the potential influence of these bureaucratic bodies on international policy-making. The main argument is that when conceptualizing the varying roles and potential policy impact of IPAs, it is useful to distinguish between their ability to develop autonomous preferences (autonomy of will) on the one hand, and their capacity to transform these preferences into action (autonomy of action) on the other. Based on this premise, the article introduces four distinct ideal-types of international bureaucracies and suggests indicators to locate a diverse sample of 20 administrations within the four-fold typology. The results reveal the empirical diversity of IPA autonomy and allow for a first empirical assessment of the factors behind this pattern. - Reproduced.  aPublic administration  aPublic Administration  a116282  c116276d116276  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 95, Issue no: 3pAR116742r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR