Regulation inside government : waste-watchers, quality police, and sleaze-busters

Author(s)

• Hood, Christopher C.

Bibliographic Information

Regulation inside government : waste-watchers, quality police, and sleaze-busters

Christopher Hood ... [et al.]

Oxford University Press, 1999

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-264) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Regulation Inside Government analyses the army of inspectors, auditors, grievance-chasers, standard-setters and other bodies overseeing contemporary public organizations. Based on an unprecedented two-year inside study of British government by a team of leading scholars, this book provides an original analytical perspective on regulation within government. The book begins by examining the size of internal government regulation to reveal a structure comparable in size to government regulation of business. The book then goes on to show how internal government regulation grew in size despite the fact that public bureaucracy elsewhere were being sharply cutback. Given the limitations of orthodox constitutional checks on executive government, the courts and elected members of the legislature, regulation inside government deserves more attention than it has hitherto received. As one of the first comprehensive accounts of regulation inside government, this book begins to fill the gap.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• PART1: INTRODUCING AND ANALYSING REGULATION INSIDE GOVERNMENT
• 1. A Regulatory State inside the State?
• 2. Running the Ruler over Regulation inside Government
• 3. Regulation in Government: Tools, Characteristics, and Behaviour
• PART 2: FIVE DOMAINS OF REGULATION INSIDE GOVERNMENT
• 4. Regulating Village Life in Central Government
• 5. Mirror Image or Double Whammy? Regulation and Local Government
• 6. All Bark, No Bite? The Regulation of Prisons in England and Wales
• 7. From Secret Garden to Reign of Terror? The Regulation of State Schools in England
• 8. Eurocratic Regulation
• PART 3: THE OVERALL PATTERN
• 9. Regulation in Government and the New Public Management
• 10. Regulating the Regulators: Policies for Reform
• Appendices
• References
• Index

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Details

• NCID: BA43522329
• ISBN:
  • 0198280998
• LCCN: 98054456
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; Tokyo ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 267 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JN318
  • DC21 : 352.3/5/0941
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Public administration -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Public utilities -- Great Britain -- Management
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Politics and government