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Administrative Argument
Christopher Hood, Michael Jackson

Dartmouth Publishing Group, 1991

This text attempts to provide a new perspective on public administration. It argues that since the 1940s, administrative science has been preoccupied with the attempt to uncover causal relationships rather than concern itself with assembling and identifying the commonest administrative doctrines.

The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management
Christopher Hood

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

This important new study, by a leading scholar in the field, offers a fresh perspective on public management. In contrast to the widespread claim of the `modernization gurus' that a new era of global convergence is dawning in public management, it uses cultural theory to show why ideas about how to manage government are inherently plural and contradictory, and likely to remain so.

A Reader on Regulation (Oxford Readings in Socio-Legal Studies)

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Oxford Univ Pr, 1998

Essential Readings for Regulators
In the last decade or so, regulation has been a growth industry both for practitioners and academics. Robert Baldwin, Colin Scott and Christopher Hood have put together a collection of some of the most important readings on regulation. The text will be an invaluable accompaniment to university courses in regulation (perhaps alongside Baldwin & Cave's textbook 'Understanding Regulation' (Oxford ...

Changing the Subject

Taylor & Francis, 2007

The image of the shinkansen - or "bullet train" - passing Mount Fuji is one of the most renowned images of modern Japan. Yet, despite its international reputation for speed and punctuality, little is understood about what makes it work so well and what its impact is. This book provides a comprehensive account of the history of the shinkansen, from its planning during the Pacific War, to its launch in 1964 and subsequent development. It goes on ...

Controlling Modern Government: Variety, Commonality And Change

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004

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 ...

Delivering Public Services in Western Europe: Sharing Western European Experience of Para-Government ...

SAGE Publications, 1988

Liberal democracies have begun to use organizations other than classic public bureaucracies to provide public services. This highly original work is the first to provide a comparative analysis of such organizations in Western Europe. It examines parallels between para-government organizations at the national level, and similar organizations at the municipal and transnational level. It offers a theoretical rationale for para-government ...

Explaining Economic Policy Reversals
Christopher Hood

Open University Press, 1994

This work considers the economic policy dinosaurs, which apparently went into extinction in the 1980s. They are: the move from "classical" regulation to deregulation; the move from public enterprise to privatization; the move from Keynesian to "monetarist" macroeconomic policy; the shift from rapid growth in government spending and staffing to stabilization and cutbacks; the move from progressive income tax structures towards "flatter taxes"; ...

Cutback Management in Public Bureaucracies: Popular Theories and Observed Outcomes in Whitehall
Andrew Dunsire, Christopher Hood

Cambridge University Press, 1989

Margaret Thatcher and the British government are generally seen to have been most effective in initiating management cutbacks. In this book the authors set out existing theories on management cutbacks and then evaluate them against what has happened in Britain in the mid-seventies and mid-eighties.