Controlling Modern Government: Variety, Commonality and Change

[POLITICS]. Eds. Christopher Hood, Oliver James, B. Guy Peters, Colin Scott. Contributors: Takashi Nishio, Martin Lodge, Marie Vogel, Arjen Boin, Theo Toonen, et al. "Controlling Modern Government: Variety, Commonality and Change." Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elger Publishing. Printed in Great Britain by MPG Books, 2004. First edition. English language. Hardcover in black cloth boards titled gilt on spine in dust jacket wrapped in clear Brodart. Edited nonfiction collection of academic political science articles from various authors with preface, bibliography, and index. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. 19 oz. xiv, 220 pp. Former library copy with sticker and date due slip pasted on front flyleaf, stamp and ink notation on colophon, and dust jacket partially adhered to boards. Sticker residue on jacket. Text clean. Good in Good jacket. ISBN: 9781843766292. "Are public sector institutions being exposed to ever-greater oversight, audit, and inspection in the name of efficiency, accountability, and risk management? 'Controlling Modern Government' explores the long-term development of controls over government across five major state traditions in developed democracies, including the US, Japan, variants of continental-European models, a Scandinavian case, and variants of the Westminster model. A central aspect of the study is an eight country comparison of variety in the use of controls based in oversight, competition, mutuality, and contrived randomness in the selected domains of the high bureaucracy at the core of the state, the higher education sector, and the prison sector. Countries covered include Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, the UK, and the USA.". …