Publisher Description

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 structurecomparable 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPART1: INTRODUCING AND ANALYSING REGULATION INSIDE GOVERNMENT1: A Regulatory State inside the State?2: Running the Ruler over Regulation inside Government3: Regulation in Government: Tools, Characteristics, and BehaviourPART 2: FIVE DOMAINS OF REGULATION INSIDE GOVERNMENT4: Regulating Village Life in Central Government5: Mirror Image or Double Whammy? Regulation and Local Government6: All Bark, No Bite? The Regulation of Prisons in England and Wales7: From Secret Garden to Reign of Terror? The Regulation of State Schools in England8: Eurocratic RegulationPART 3: THE OVERALL PATTERN9: Regulation in Government and the New Public Management10: Regulating the Regulators: Policies for ReformAppendicesReferencesIndex

Review

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. * British Politics Group Newsletter, Summer 2001 *

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First-ever in depth look at the machinary of regulation that dominates Whitehall today

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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.

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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

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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.

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First-ever in depth look at the machinary of regulation that dominates Whitehall today
Drawing on unprecedented access to the administrative heart of Britian
Important contribution to the debate about New Public Management

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