Original
Understanding Resourcing Trade-Offs in International Organizations: Evidence from an Elite Survey Experiment
Abstract
International organizations (IOs) are mandated to address some of the most important global challenges under intense budget scarcity. In recent years, they expanded their funding base through a greater reliance on earmarked voluntary contributions by member states and nonstate actors. Critics warn that earmarked funding creates an important trade-off: IOs can do more with earmarked funding but have less control over what they do and do it less well. In this registered report, we probe how staff evaluate different types of earmarking through a novel elite survey experiment with staff from six United Nations organizations. We show that staff prefer earmarking for their own area of work over other types of earmarking. However, these preferences do not affect the funding amount they deem as appropriate or the overheads they expect their organization to charge. Our study provides important insights for debates on the resourcing of IOs and the motivations of international bureaucrats.
中文
理解国际组织中的资源筹措权衡：来自精英调查实验的证据
摘要
国际组织肩负着在严重预算紧缺条件下应对部分最重要全球挑战的使命。近年来，它们通过更多依赖成员国与非国家行为体的指定用途自愿捐款，扩大了资金来源基础。批评者警告称，指定用途资金会造成一项重要权衡：国际组织凭借指定用途资金可以做得更多，但对所开展工作的掌控更少，且完成质量更差。在本注册报告中，我们通过对六个联合国组织工作人员的创新型精英调查实验，考察工作人员如何评价不同类型的指定用途资金。我们发现，工作人员更偏好用于其自身工作领域的指定用途资金，而非其他类型的指定用途资金。然而，这些偏好并不会影响他们认为合适的资金数额，也不会影响他们预期本组织收取的管理费用。本研究为关于国际组织资源筹措以及国际官僚动机的讨论提供了重要洞见。
关键词
国际组织、指定用途资金、自愿捐款、精英调查实验、国际官僚、资源筹措、联合国