Abstract

What happens when influential international organizations change their beliefs about policy? Do they effectively transfer their learning? This paper answers these questions through a comparative historical analysis of the influence of the World Bank on secondary education policy in Colombia. Although the World Bank radically changed its ideas about secondary education and actively disseminated them in Colombia by reshaping its lending priorities and technical assistance, domestic increasing returns of previous foreign recommendations prevented the adoption of new World Bank’s lessons. This study shows that the influence of international organizations is substantially shaped by domestic politics.

摘要

当有影响力的国际组织改变他们对政策的看法时会发生什么？他们是否有效地转移了他们的学习？本文通过对世界银行对哥伦比亚中等教育政策影响的比较历史分析来回答这些问题。尽管世界银行从根本上改变了其关于中等教育的想法，并通过重塑其贷款优先事项和技术援助在哥伦比亚积极传播这些想法，但以前外国建议的国内收益递增阻碍了世界银行新经验的采纳。这项研究表明，国际组织的影响在很大程度上是由国内政治决定的。