ILO: Simple Procedures Despite a Tripartite Principal

Abstract

Chapter 6 underlines the unique principal structure of the ILO, with 50 percent of seats in its Conference and its Governing Body assigned to national social partners, that is, workers’ and employers’ representatives. Against expectations, this complex principal constellation only has limited effects on proceduralization in the ILO; administrative decentralization of the organization and the growing shift to voluntary financing of technical assistance at field level are at least as important. Instead, there are typical instances of complex P–A constellations in the ILO that one also finds in other cases, such as the special role of the main contributing states in the budgeting procedures, a dynamic that is much more pronounced as a driver of principal complexity than the role of regional groups and of social partners.