Yazar: Christopher Hood

The loss of a loved one is a traumatic event. If the loved one is your child, the emotions are further tested. Imagine having to cope with all of these feelings when also adding into the mix the chal …

The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every …

This volume identifies and compares ‘fiscal squeezes’ (major efforts to cut public spending and/or raise taxes) in the UK over a century from 1900 to 2015. The authors examine how different the polit …

This volume identifies and compares ‘fiscal squeezes’ (major efforts to cut public spending and/or raise taxes) in the UK over a century from 1900 to 2015. The authors examine how different the polit …

Forging a Discipline analyses the growth of the academic discipline of politics and international relations at Oxford University over the last hundred years. This century marked the maturation and pr …

The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by …

Why does public management-the art of the state-so often go wrong, producing failure and fiasco instead of public service? What are the different ways in which control or regulation can be applied to …

Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are some risks regulated aggressively and others responded to only modestly? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk …

The traditional understandings that structure the relationships between public servants and the wider political system are said to have undergone considerable change. But what are these formalized an …

This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with ‘modernization’ projects and tackles the key question that they provoke – why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises …

This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with ‘modernization’ projects and tackles the key question that they provoke – why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises …

The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office …

Using unprecedented access to the key actors inside the UK Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) and supporting interviews, this book explores how telecommunications regulation works from the inside. …

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 …

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 …

The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office …

The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office …

Using unprecedented access to the key actors inside the UK Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) and supporting interviews, this book explores how telecommunications regulation works from the inside. …

Using unprecedented access to the key actors inside the UK Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) and supporting interviews, this book explores how telecommunications regulation works from the inside. …

Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash in …

Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash in …

This important new work updates the arguments of Christopher Hood’s classic work The Tools of Government for the Twenty-First century. Comprehensively revised throughout, it includes increased covera …

The book of peace that will open doors to new realities. Written in poetry form, short stories, a book of spells, bringing back old folk heroes Robin Hood and little Miss Riding Hood, along with sham …

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 …

The Way the Money Goes traces out what happened to the UK’s fiscal constitution – the framework for planning and controlling public spending – under three different governments (Conservative, Labour, …

The Way the Money Goes traces out what happened to the UK’s fiscal constitution – the framework for planning and controlling public spending – under three different governments (Conservative, Labour, …

Dealing CIA Cocaine… And A City Dies! Killing Detroit pulls the sheets off a well-planned government scheme that left broken neighborhoods, fractured families, and dead bodies in its wake. Over fif …

  In America, we are still a society with the deeply embedded idea that white skin is superior to all others. This idea is not subject to change in the eyes of those who benefit from it. You are …