How and when do international norms shape or fail to shape a state's behaviors? This paper examines how and why South Korea decided to accede to the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in 2008. Specifically, we examine the political infighting that shaped the timing and implementation of the decision. Our study highlights what we term a “bureaucratic norm contestation process” whereby government agencies independently select norms to promote based on their organizational interests and engage in intra‐governmental debates as they competitively attempt to “sell” their choice to decision‐makers. In the case of South Korea, this aggressive reinterpretation of norms, in conjunction with pushback by rival bureaucratic agencies, has contributed to two translations of the norm. The first translation was a discursive shift of the language of donorship away from a focus on humanitarian duty and towards status enhancement. The second translation occurred at the level of practice, as rival bureaucracies tried to implement their unique vision of Korea's success story. This study illustrates that norm diffusion is not a unidirectional flow of ideas from the center to the periphery of the international system but a process of contested coproduction that includes local actors.

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韩国善待捐赠规范的拥抱：规范翻译的官僚主义过程

国际规范如何以及何时塑造或不塑造国家行为？本文研究了韩国决定如何以及为什么在2008年决定加入经济合作与发展组织（OECD）发展援助委员会（DAC）。具体地说，我们研究了决定该决定的时间和实施的政治内斗。我们的研究强调了我们所说的“官僚规范竞争过程”，即政府机构根据其组织利益独立选择要促进的规范，并在竞争中试图将其选择“出售”给决策者时参与政府内部辩论。以韩国为例，这种对规范的积极重新诠释，加上敌对的官僚机构的压制，促成了该规范的两次翻译。最初的翻译是将捐赠语言从关注人道主义义务转向提高地位的话语权转移。第二次翻译是在实践层面上进行的，因为敌对的官僚机构试图实现他们对韩国成功故事的独特见解。这项研究表明，规范传播不是思想从国际体系的中心到外围的单向流动，而是包括本地参与者在内的有争议的联合生产过程。