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Zusatztext Hood and colleagues develop a single, coherent analysis around the idea of relational distance and formality and then apply it to a range of policy areas...More thematic and covering a wide range of substantive cases, Hood and colleagues provide and insightful analysis and a clear picture of the way the UK state is changing. Informationen zum Autor CHRISTOPHER HOOD is a Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at London School of Economics.OLIVER JAMES is a Lecturer in Politics at Exeter University.GEORGE JONES is Professor of Government at London School of Economics.COLIN SCOTT is Lecturer in Law at London School of Economics.TONY TRAVERS is Director of the London Group at London School of Economics. Klappentext Based on two years of unprecedented access to the inner workings of Whitehall, this book by a leading team of scholars examines the army of inspectors, auditors, grievance-chasers and other bodies devoted to oversight of public organisations while documenting their remarkable growth over the last two decades. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
