Regulation Inside Government Waste-Watchers, Quality Police, and Sleaze-Busters

by Hood, Christopher; Scott, Colin; James, Oliver; Jones, George; Travers, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780198280996
• ISBN10: 0198280998
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 anoriginal 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 sizedespite 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, thisbook 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

List of Figures	xi
List of Tables	xii
PART ONE: INTRODUCING AND ANALYSING REGULATION INSIDE GOVERNMENT
A Regulatory State inside the State?	3	(17)
Running the Ruler over Regulation inside Government	20	(24)
Regulation in Government: Tools, Characteristics, and Behaviour	44	(27)
PART TWO: FIVE DOMAINS OF REGULATION INSIDE GOVERNMENT
Regulating `Village Life' in Central Government	71	(22)
Mirror Image or Double Whammy? Regulation and Local Government	93	(23)
All Bark, No Bite? The Regulation of Prisons in England and Wales	116	(23)
From Secret Garden to Reign of Terror? The Regulation of State Schools in England	139	(23)
Eurocratic Regulation	162	(25)
PART THREE: THE OVERALL PATTERN
Regulation in Government and the New Public Management	187	(23)
Regulating the Regulators: Policies for Reform	210	(39)
Appendices
I. Interviews	228	(3)
II. Regulator Budgets and Staffing	231	(4)
III. Selected Regulator Profiles	235	(14)
References	249	(16)
Index	265