This article contributes to the periodization of ‘scientization’ by scrutinizing how international organizations (IOs) have evolved into such scientific authorities as many of them are today. The authors examine the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and its Economic Surveys during the period 1965–2015. The study sheds light on how scientific authority manifests in IOs’ reporting and policy recommendations directed at national governments. First, the analysis scrutinizes how science figures rhetorically in reports. Secondly, it focuses on policy recommendations and their connection to the scientific content of these reports. The results show that although the reports were portrayed as ‘scientific’ already in the 1960s, in the 2000s the reporting clearly shifted from the language of economics towards more popularized consulting language. The authors argue that these changes are due to the OECD’s reactions to transformations in the wider institutional environment and occasioned by its endeavours to appear as a significant actor in knowledge-based policymaking.

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国际组织建立其科学权威：经合组织政策建议合法化的周期

本文通过审视国际组织 (IO) 如何发展成为当今许多这样的科学权威，为“科学化”的分期做出贡献。作者研究了经济合作与发展组织 (OECD) 及其 1965-2015 年期间的经济调查。该研究阐明了科学权威如何体现在国际组织针对国家政府的报告和政策建议中。首先，分析仔细检查了科学在报告中的修辞方式。其次，它侧重于政策建议及其与这些报告的科学内容的联系。结果表明，尽管这些报告在 1960 年代就被描述为“科学的”，在 2000 年代，报告显然从经济学语言转向了更大众化的咨询语言。作者认为，这些变化是由于经合组织对更广泛的制度环境中的变革做出的反应，以及其努力在基于知识的决策中扮演重要角色而引起的。