Controlling Modern Government: Variety, Commonality and Change - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843766299 ISBN 13: 9781843766292

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

Hood (government, All Souls College, Oxford, UK), James (politics, U. of Exeter, UK), Peters (American government, U. of Pittsburgh, US), and Scott (law, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) provide a comparative examination of the evolution of governmental control systems of prisons, higher education, and senior civil servants in Australia, the US, Japan, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Norway. They measure the relative use of oversight, competition, mutuality, and comprised randomness in order to judge if there are discernible common international trends in control over the course of the past generation or so. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Christopher Hood, Gladstone Professor of Government, All Souls College, Oxford, UK, Oliver James, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK, B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor, University of Pittsburgh, US and Colin Scott, Vice-Principal for Research and Innovation, UCD College of Business and Law and Professor of EU Regulation and Governance, UCD School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland

Review:

`The editors and authors are to be congratulated on a book that is unusually well integrated, filled with interesting findings, and, best of all, theoretically sophisticated and stimulating.' -- Joel D. Aberbach, West European Politics `Controlling Modern Government is likely to become a seminal text in the field of control and accountability systems. Christopher Hood and his colleagues have produced a majestic volume that exposes and teases apart the multitude of co-existent control mechanisms that are to be found across time, policy fields and jurisdictions. The outcome is a nuanced understanding of the complexity of modern governance and the importance of state traditions and professional cultures.' -- Matthew Flinders, Public Administration `. . . a most disciplined book that spells out what it is going to do then does it well.' -- Malcolm Crompton, Public Administration Today `This book sets a new standard for systematic use of comparative information in studies on accountability and control. It is a welcome change from the past tendency in this field to build theoretical mountains on empirical molehills.' -- Charles Polidano, Office of the Prime Minister, Malta

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1843766299
• ISBN 13: 9781843766292
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Hood Christopher, James Oliver, Peters B. Guy, Scott Colin