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

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.

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.