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100			_aMurdoch, Z., Gravier, M. and Ganzle, S. _937523
245			_aInternational public administration on the tip of the tongue: Language as a feature of representative bureaucracy in the economic community of west African states
260			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
300			_a88(4), Dec, 2022: p.1086-1104
520			_aRecent scholarship shows increasing interest in gender, ethnic or national representation within regional and international organizations. In contrast, language as a criterion of representation has rarely been scrutinized. We argue that this constitutes an important oversight for two reasons: (1) language is an important identity marker; and (2) language regimes in international public administrations can uniquely address representativeness relative to both member states and groups of citizens. Our article explores language representation in the Economic Community of West African States, and pursues a twofold objective: first, it extends the applicability of representative bureaucracy theory to the issue of language; and, second, it broadens the scope of representative bureaucracy studies by providing the first study on a prominent West African regional organization. As such, we develop avenues for future research on other regional and international organizations.- Reproduced
650			_aEconomic community of West African states, Language, Regional Organisations, Representative bureaucracy. _935954
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
906			_aPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
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