Regulation inside government : waste-watchers, quality police, and sleazebusters /

Based on a two-year inside study of British government, this volume analyses the army of inspectors, auditors, grievance-chasers, standard-setters and other bodies overseeing contemporary public organisations.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Oxford University Press
Other Authors:	Hood, Christopher, 1947-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series:	Oxford scholarship online. Political Science module.
Subjects:	Public administration > Great Britain. Public utilities > Great Britain > Management. Great Britain > Politics and government. Administration publique (Science) > Grande-Bretagne. Services publics > Grande-Bretagne > Gestion. Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement. Constitutional. LAW. Comparative Politics. POLITICAL SCIENCE. Public Policy. Politics and government Public administration Public utilities > Management Great Britain Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""PART ONE: 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 TWO: 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 THREE: THE OVERALL PATTERN""; ""9. Regulation in Government and the New Public Management""; ""10. Regulating the Regulators: Policies for Reform""; ""Appendices""; ""I. Interviews""; ""II. Regulator Budgets and Staffing""; ""III. Selected Regulator Profiles""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""