Mechanisms of OECD governance : international incentives for national policy-making? / edited by Kerstin Martens, Anja P. Jakobi.

Introduction : the OECD as an actor in international politics / Kerstin Martins and Anja P. Jakobi ; The OECD's global role : agenda-setting and policy diffusion / Morten Ougaard -- Core areas of OECD activity. The OECD and economic governance : invisibility and impotence? / Richard Woodward ; Tax policy in the OECD : soft governance gets harder / Robert T. Kudrle ; The OECD and global finance : the governance of new issues, new actors, and new financial frontiers / Tony Porter ; From deregulation to flexicurity? : the makeover of the OECD jobs strategy / Kerstin Jacobsson and Niklas Noaksson ; The OECD and crime : the fight against corruption and money laundering / Anja P. Jakobi -- Complementary areas of OECD activities. Expanding and intensifying governance : the OECD in education policy / Anja P. Jakobi and Kerstin Martens ; A new global health actor? : the OECD's careful guidance of national health care systems / Alexandra Kaasch ; Learning, forgetting, rediscovering : producing the OECD's "new" family policy / Rianne Mahon ; The OECD as ideas diffuser : the growth of the global biotechnology industry / Monique Centrone ; The activities of the OECD in international migration : how to become a relevant actor in an emerging policy field / Janna Teltemann ; Conclusion : findings, implications and outlook of OECD governance / Anja P. Jakobi and Kerstin Martens.

Includes bibliographical references and index.