Controlling Modern Government

Edited by Christopher Hood, Oliver James, B. Guy Peters and Colin Scott ()

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Abstract: Controlling Modern Government explores the long-term development of controls over government across five major state traditions in developed democracies – US, Japan, variants of continental-European models, a Scandinavian case and variants of the Westminster model.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B5 E12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
ISBN: 9781843766292
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Controlling public services and government: towards a cross-national perspective

Christopher Hood

Ch 2 Prisons: varying oversight and mutuality, much tinkering, limited control

Oliver James and Christopher Hood

Ch 3 Higher education and university research: harnessing competition and mutuality to oversight?

Colin Scott and Christopher Hood

Ch 4 Higher civil servants: neither mutuality implosion nor oversight explosion

B. Guy Peters and Christopher Hood

Ch 5 Conclusion: making sense of controls over government

Christopher Hood

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