Kim Moloney
EDUCATION
-- PhD in Public Administration, American University (2011)
-- MA in International Economics and Latin American Studies, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University (2005)
-- MPA from the Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2004)
-- BSc in Economics and International Relations with an African Studies Certificate, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1996)
Supervisors: David H. Rosenbloom (Member, Dissertation Committee; Distinguished Professor of Public Administration), Deborah Brautigam (Member, Dissertation Committee; Professor of International Relations), William LeoGrande (Chair, Dissertation Committee; Dean, and School of Public Affairs)
-- PhD in Public Administration, American University (2011)
-- MA in International Economics and Latin American Studies, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University (2005)
-- MPA from the Maxwell School, Syracuse University (2004)
-- BSc in Economics and International Relations with an African Studies Certificate, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1996)
Supervisors: David H. Rosenbloom (Member, Dissertation Committee; Distinguished Professor of Public Administration), Deborah Brautigam (Member, Dissertation Committee; Professor of International Relations), William LeoGrande (Chair, Dissertation Committee; Dean, and School of Public Affairs)
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Design/methodology/approach: The empirical research is based on a content analysis of 512 external auditor recommendations from 28 pre- and post-accrual reports of 14 UN bodies.
Findings: We find that external auditors do enable policy transfer and that such involvements may, at times, veer into non-neutral policy spaces.
Research limitations/implications: We did not analyze all UN organizations with accruals-based accounting. We also did not engage in a longer longitudinal study.
Practical implications: Our findings raise new questions about international organization accountability, the technocratic and policy-specific influences of external auditors, and open a debate about whether attempted policy transfers can be neutral.
Originality/value: The world’s largest group of international organizations is affiliated with the UN. External auditors help ensure that member-state monies are appropriately utilized. Our study is the first to compare pre- and post-accrual external auditor recommendations for 14 UN bodies. It is also the first to notate and study the attempted policy transfers from external auditors to the audited UN bodies.
Published in Volume 1, Issue 1 of the International Review of Public Policy (open access).
Design/methodology/approach: The empirical research is based on a content analysis of 512 external auditor recommendations from 28 pre- and post-accrual reports of 14 UN bodies.
Findings: We find that external auditors do enable policy transfer and that such involvements may, at times, veer into non-neutral policy spaces.
Research limitations/implications: We did not analyze all UN organizations with accruals-based accounting. We also did not engage in a longer longitudinal study.
Practical implications: Our findings raise new questions about international organization accountability, the technocratic and policy-specific influences of external auditors, and open a debate about whether attempted policy transfers can be neutral.
Originality/value: The world’s largest group of international organizations is affiliated with the UN. External auditors help ensure that member-state monies are appropriately utilized. Our study is the first to compare pre- and post-accrual external auditor recommendations for 14 UN bodies. It is also the first to notate and study the attempted policy transfers from external auditors to the audited UN bodies.
Published in Volume 1, Issue 1 of the International Review of Public Policy (open access).
Within the public administration and policy disciplines, there has been limited recognition about the nature of, linkages among, and the response options for crises and poly-crises, when more than one crisis, emergency, disaster, or catastrophe (whether human-caused or natural) simultaneously impacts citizens in one geographical location. This handbook gathers experts from different fields to explore how each crisis challenges human capacity, information technology, and communication capabilities, and how public leaders must respond. These expert contributions are grouped within five thematic sections:
Structures in Crisis: A North-South Dialogue, to engage national and global perspectives on how political, social, and economic structures respond during crises
Agents in Crisis: A Cross-Actor Dialogue, on how agents respond to crises
Human Capital and Information Technology in Crisis, exploring how these resources interact during crises
Public Sector Communication in Crisis, examining issues of government and governance in effective crisis communication
Practitioners in Crisis, a reminder to the discipline that important context and realities are missed if practitioner realities are overlooked.
Chapters in the book engage twenty-three countries and one overseas dependency along with fourteen crisis events. Eighteen chapters are focused on one crisis event while ten chapters directly or indirectly engage poly-crises.
As crises and polycrises become a constancy of our time, this volume will be of great interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of public administration and public policy.
Transnational administration is a multi-actor and multi-scalar endeavour having manifestations, depending on the policy issue or problems, at the local, urban, sub-regional, sub-national, regional, national, supranational, supra-regional, transnational, international, and global scales. These scales of 'local' and 'global' are not neatly bounded and nested spaces but are articulated together in complex patterns of policy activity. These transnational patterns represent a re-invigoration of public administration and policy studies as the Handbook authors advance their analysis beyond the methodological nationalism of the nation-state.
Launch: June 2019 at IPPA Conference (Montreal).
-- Project: (a) Create the methodological framework and variables for a future Social Cohesion Index, (b) evaluate the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of social cohesion in Islam, in the West, in social media, and among citizens and migrant groups in Qatar, (c) conduct focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and data analysis.
Grant Dates: 1/1/2023 to 12/31/2023.
Abstract: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has catalyzed a shift in the corporate world and spurred companies to develop corporate social responsibility (CSR) agendas and strategies to report their sustainability progress and to ensure responsible growth. With the Qatar National Vision (QNV) 2030 aiming to transform the country, CSR plays a significant role in assisting companies in achieving their objectives and contributing to sustainable development. Sport has distinctive characteristics which make it an appealing vehicle for CSR initiatives, yet there is a paucity of research that has examined the status quo. To date, only three studies have been conducted on the London, Moscow and Warsaw stock exchanges, respectively.
With the Qatari government encouraging companies to embrace CSR principles, The Social & Sport Contribution Fund (Daam), initiated by Emiri Decree No. 44 of 2010, is aligned with QNV 2030 and endeavors to enhance social development through supporting social and sport activities. Currently, no data is available on the scope and nature of the Qatar’s private sector CSR programs generally, and in relation to sport in particular.
This study will address this challenge by assessing the type, beneficiaries, outcomes of CSR implementation through sport, and how it is communicated (through social media, and Twitter, in particular), by companies listed on the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE). The proposed study is innovative in that it will use natural language processing (NLP) techniques to detect and predict categories of CSR through sport for a diagnostic of the status quo and future directions for corporates engaging in CSR. Furthermore, the use of NLP and other machine learning (ML) techniques, will help give direction to CSR through sport programs by QSE listed companies. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time that these techniques will be applied to understand social responsibility that enhances stock market companies via CSR through sport. Four Work Packages are proposed to address the challenge: 1. Identification of CSR reporting by listed companies in QSE (since 2010 when Daam was launched and coincides with the awarding of the 2022 FIFA World Cup to Qatar); 2. Pilot study conducted in one company (NLP collection and analysis of CSR through sport content); 3. Application of the model to all QSE listed companies; and 4. Dissemination and policy implications. Given the strategic importance of sport in the national context, the study contributes to managerial decision-making concerning CSR program development and efficient communication as well as ascertaining policy and legal implications. This will be the first study in Qatar (and the broader region) to showcase the use of sport to implement CSR programs by the private sector. The study will assist the listed companies with better designed programs that can make a greater contribution to achieving QNV 2030. Additionally, more in-depth knowledge of CSR through sport by listed companies can support sport organizations in the wider sporting ecosystem with decision-making in relation to diversifying their funding portfolio and enhancing their engagement with their communities.
-- Full workshop held at the ISA Conference in Montreal in March 2023.
-- Abstracts for Special Issue under review (as of June 2023).
-- Research Period: Mar 2013 to Oct 2016.
-- Four co-PIs: Myself plus Lindsay Stirton, University of Sheffield (UK); Martin Lodge, LSE (UK); Ann-Marie Bissessar, University of the West Indies (TRINIDAD).
-- Abstract: This study traces the evolution of ‘transplanted’ Public Service Bargains (PSBs) in Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago in the post-colonial period. PSBs are the formal and informal rules and conventions governing the relationship between public servants and the wider political system, are at the heart of politics. We explore the following questions: What kind of PSBs underpinned the initial ‘transplanted’ Whitehall/Westminster institutions at the time of Jamaican and Trinidadian independence across different public services? How have the formal and informal understandings regarding PSBs changed over time, and why? How have specific and more contemporary PSBs (executive and regulatory agencies) evolved over time? Based on comparative archival and interview-based material, this study will enhance our understanding of evolving informal institutions and how ‘transplanted’ constructs are accommodated within particular contexts, at a time of crisis and sometimes misguided reform of public services in the Commonwealth Caribbean.""
-- Project #1: “Aid Effectiveness and ‘Partnership’: Donor-NGO Relations in the South Pacific”. Published a journal article in Pacific Affairs.
-- Project #2: “An International Organization Agenda for Public Administration”. Published a journal article in American Review of Public Administration.
-- Project #3: Supplementary funding for British Academy project.
The sovereign domain of policy making and administration of last century is increasingly supplanted by multiple public spheres and policy communities carving out new transnational spaces of policy making and public administration. The old methodological nationalism or ‘Westphalian grammar’ no longer exclusively describes a proliferation of delegated and decentralized policy and administration. This new global policy and transnational administration includes a diverse set of institutions, actors, and individuals interacting with non-state actors and other networks to help states and the global community respond to its most pressing problems. Global policy problems require scholars and practitioners to move past their sector-specific foci and narrow disciplinary (and nation-focused) endeavours to create space for new disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological emphases in which the boundaries between domestic and global are neither finite nor clearly defined.
Abstract: This chapter examines the principles, problems, and prospects of whistleblowing in the international public service: its significance, relevant laws, and bureaucratic institutions. The discussion begins with whistleblowing based largely on the American experience, because it has some of the most extensive whistleblowing policies in the world. Following a brief summary of the literature, whistleblowing concepts, and the transnational civil service are examined. While not limited to one international agency, the focus is on the United Nations as the world’s largest federation of nation states. The analysis closes with an exploration of whistleblowing guidelines and best practice in the global administrative structure.
The intersection of public personnel management, the international civil service, and international civil servants of international organizations (IOs) is a relatively new area of inquiry shaped by two literatures. The first is an established public personnel management literature largely focused on democratic and developed countries. The second is a nascent and often non-comparative international civil service literature focused on the United Nations and, more recently, the European Union and the World Bank. Research is dominated by the politics of personnel management (recruitment/representation, secondment, labour contracts) and less on other typical personnel management concerns. Insufficient attention to an IO’s human resources limits a fuller understanding of its representation, legitimacy, and accountability concerns.
The chapter framework is focused on the structure of knowledge and its intellectual histories and the values espoused in administrative life. This involves asking whether administrative models are largely Western and if the intellectual histories, model choices, and methodological tools are “decolonised”. The “not quite” answer indicates which knowledge is prioritised and how training, hiring, and publication opportunities influence knowledge creation. Barriers which limit a full bi-directional influence between Western- and Asia-based administrative scholarship include language, methods, concept relevancy, editorial space limitations, and questions about which scholars (e.g., by gender, ethnicity) dominate the intellectual discourse.