From bureaucracy to management: The International Criminal Court’s internal progress narrative

• DOI: 10.1017/s092215651800064x
• Publication Date: 2018-11-29T09:09:18Z
• Authors: Richard Clements
• Keywords: Bureaucracy

Abstract Within international institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC), lawyers increasingly encounter managerial practices which are designed to improve organizational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Charting this trend, scholars have analyzed these with a view make them more legitimate. However, scholarly focus overlooks role of in legitimizing thus sustaining they embedded. In article, I ask how operate boost ICC’s reputation among its global audience. find answer Court’s use juxtaposed images bureaucracy management, all their negative positive associations. The uses narrate story own internal evolution from inefficient efficient well-managed organization. This hidden narrative institutional progress functions rhetorically frame, distract attention constituencies.