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Controlling Modern Government: Variety, Commonality And Change

By Christopher Hood , Oliver James , B. Guy Peters , Colin Scott

Book information

Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Year
2004
ISBN
1843766299, 9781843766292, 9781845423599
Open Library ID
OL17142562M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
565 kB (578427 bytes)
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
220\234
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

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 - 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.

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