Christopher C. Hood

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A PUBLIC MANAGEMENT FOR ALL SEASONS (1991) (7955)
The “new public management” in the 1980s: Variations on a theme (1995) (3079)
What's measured is what matters: targets and gaming in the English public health care system (2006) (1236)
From old public administration to new public management (1994) (1196)
The Tools of Government (1983) (1120)
The Middle Aging of New Public Management: Into the Age of Paradox? (2004) (870)
The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management (1998) (797)
The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes (2001) (695)
Transparency: the Key to Better Governance? (2006) (601)
The Risk Game and the Blame Game * (2002) (558)
The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government (2010) (496)
Contemporary public management: a new global paradigm? (1995) (432)
Gaming in Targetworld: The Targets Approach to Managing British Public Services (2006) (420)
What happens when transparency meets blame-avoidance? (2007) (382)
THE “ NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT ” IN THE 1980 s : VARIATIONS ON A THEME (2003) (365)
The tools of government in the digital age (2007) (332)
Joined-up government (2005) (308)
Intellectual Obsolescence and Intellectual Makeovers: Reflections on the Tools of Government after Two Decades (2007) (293)
Have targets improved performance in the English NHS? (2006) (286)
Regulation Inside Government: Waste-Watchers, Quality Police, and Sleaze-Busters (1999) (280)
Transparency in historical perspective (2006) (264)
Regulation Inside Government (1999) (256)
A reader on regulation (1998) (238)
Public Service Management by Numbers: Why Does it Vary? Where Has it Come From? What Are the Gaps and the Puzzles? (2007) (235)
Explaining Economic Policy Reversals (1994) (235)
The government of risk (2001) (235)
Paradoxes of public-sector managerialism, old public management and public service bargains (2000) (233)
The Politics of Public Service Bargains: Reward, Competency, Loyalty - and Blame (2006) (208)
EMERGING ISSUES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (1995) (204)
Accountability and Transparency: Siamese Twins, Matching Parts, Awkward Couple? (2010) (197)
The limits of administration (1976) (193)
Into an Age of Multiple Austerities? Public Management and Public Service Bargains across OECD Countries (2012) (178)
Regulation of Government: Has it Increased, is it Increasing, Should it be Diminished? (2000) (171)
Control, Bargains, and Cheating: The Politics of Public-Service Reform (2002) (149)
Controlling Modern Government (2004) (135)
De-Sir Humphreyfying the Westminster Model of Bureaucracy: A New Style of Governance? (1990) (130)
Accident and Design: Contemporary Debates on Risk Management (1996) (124)
Competency, Bureaucracy, and Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis (2004) (119)
The politics of public service bargains (2006) (118)
Controlling modern government : variety, commonality and change (2004) (117)
The Idea of Joined-Up Government: A Historical Perspective (2005) (115)
Regulation Inside Government: Where New Public Management Meets the Audit Explosion (1998) (112)
Public Management by Numbers as a Performance‐Enhancing Drug: Two Hypotheses (2012) (100)
Control Over Bureaucracy: Cultural Theory and Institutional Variety (1995) (97)
What We Have to Show for 30 Years of New Public Management: Higher Costs, More Complaints (2015) (91)
A MODEL OF COST‐CUTTING IN GOVERNMENT? THE GREAT MANAGEMENT REVOLUTION IN UK CENTRAL GOVERNMENT RECONSIDERED (2013) (85)
Pavlovian Policy Responses to Media Feeding Frenzies? Dangerous Dogs Regulation in Comparative Perspective (2002) (83)
Testing times: Exploring staged responses and the impact of blame management strategies in two examination fiasco cases (2009) (79)
Individualized Contracts For Top Public Servants: Copying Business, Path‐Dependent Political Re‐Engineering—or Trobriand Cricket? (1998) (76)
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY: INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGES FOR THE 1990s1 (1989) (74)
Telecommunications Regulation: Culture, Chaos and Interdependence Inside the Regulatory Process (2000) (71)
From FOI World to WikiLeaks World: A New Chapter in the Transparency Story? (2011) (66)
Cutback Management in Public Bureaucracies: Popular Theories and Observed Outcomes in Whitehall (1989) (66)
Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform (2010) (64)
Blame avoidance in comparative perspective: reactivity, staged retreat and efficacy (2016) (60)
Business Risk Management in Government: Pitfalls and Possibilities (2000) (56)
Risk Regulation Under Pressure (2001) (56)
Rating the Rankings: Assessing International Rankings of Public Service Performance (2008) (56)
Bureaucratic Regulation and New Public Management in the United Kingdom: Mirror-Image Developments? (1996) (54)
Targets, inspections, and transparency (2004) (51)
Administrative Analysis: An Introduction to Rules, Enforcement, and Organizations (1986) (51)
USING BUREAUCRACY SPARINGLY (1983) (49)
Keys for Locks in Administrative Argument (1994) (47)
The Political Payoff from Performance Target Systems: No-Brainer or No-Gainer? (2010) (45)
The Tools of Government in the Information Age (2008) (45)
Which Contract State? Four Perspectives on Over‐Outsourcing for Public Services (1997) (45)
Beyond exchanging first principles? Some closing comments (2006) (44)
Rewards at the top : a comparative study of high public office (1994) (44)
A LEVER FOR IMPROVEMENT OR A MAGNET FOR BLAME? PRESS AND POLITICAL RESPONSES TO INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RANKINGS IN FOUR EU COUNTRIES (2013) (39)
Delivering Public Services in Western Europe: Sharing Western European Experience of Para-Government Organization. (1989) (38)
Not What it Said on the Tin? Reflections on Three Decades of UK Public Management Reform (2016) (36)
Keeping the Centre Small: Explanations of Agency Type (1978) (36)
Public service bargains and public service reform (2008) (34)
Paradoxes of Modernization (2010) (33)
Public Service Managerialism: Onwards and Upwards, or ‘Trobriand Cricket’ Again? (2001) (33)
Bureaumetrics: The Quantitative Comparison of British Central Government Agencies, by Christopher Hood and Andrew Dunsire. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1981. Hardback, $27.50. Pp. 312 (1981) (32)
Public Management, New (2001) (32)
The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management – By Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid (2011) (31)
Symposium Introduction: Competency and Higher Civil Servants (2005) (31)
Big Government in Hard Times (1981) (30)
Transparency: The Key to Better Governance?: Proceedings of the British Academy 135 (2006) (29)
Where Risk Society Meets the Regulatory State: Exploring Variations in Risk Regulation Regimes (1999) (28)
When the Party's Over: The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze in Perspective (2014) (28)
Sixteen ways to consumerize public services: Pick ‘n mix or painful trade‐offs? (1996) (28)
The Central Executive (1997) (26)
British tax structure development as administrative adaptation (1985) (25)
9. The Hidden Public Sector: The ‘Quangocratization’ of the World? (1991) (24)
Relations between ministers/politicians and public servants: public service bargains old and new (2000) (24)
Competency and bureaucracy: diffusion, application and appropriate response? (2003) (23)
Reward for High Public Office: Asian and Pacific Rim States (2003) (22)
Assessing the Dangerous Dogs Act: When does a Regulatory Law Fail? (2000) (22)
Accountability and Blame–Avoidance (2014) (21)
Aesop With Variations: Civil Service Competency as A Case of German Tortoise and British Hare? (2005) (21)
Bureaucrats and Budgeting Benefits: How do British Central Government Departments Measure Up? (1984) (19)
Risk management and business regulation (2000) (19)
Controlling public services and government: towards a cross-national perspective (2004) (18)
Administrative Diseases: Some Types of Dysfunctionality in Administration (1974) (18)
Regulating Government in a ‘ Managerial ’ Age : Towards a Cross-National Perspective (2001) (16)
Reinventing the Treasury: Economic Rationalism or an Econocrat’s Fallacy of Control? (1997) (16)
Delivering minimalist workplaces that improve corporate agility (2003) (16)
Ratings and Rankings of Public Service Performance: Special Issue Introduction (2008) (15)
Incentives: New Research on an Old Problem (2010) (15)
Can We? Administrative Limits Revisited (2010) (15)
IT'S PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, ROD, BUT MAYBE NOT AS WE KNOW IT: BRITISH PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN THE 2000s (2011) (15)
Stabilization and Cutbacks (1991) (15)
Public management research on the road from consilience to experimentation? (2011) (15)
Fighting fires in testing times: exploring a staged response hypothesis for blame management in two exam fiasco cases (2007) (15)
Rolling Back The State: Thatcherism, Fraserism and Bureaucracy (1988) (15)
Pavlovian innovation, pet solutions and economizing on rationality?: politicians and dangerous dogs (2005) (14)
SCALE ECONOMIES AND IRON LAWS: MERGERS AND DEMERGERS IN WHITEHALL 1971–1984 (1985) (14)
Where Risk Society Meets The Regulatory State (1999) (14)
Explaining risk regulation regimes: exploring the 'minimal feasible response' hypothesis (1999) (13)
Paradoxes in public sector reform : an international comparison (2003) (13)
PRIVATIZING UK TAX LAW ENFORCEMENT (1986) (13)
The Politics of Quangocide (1980) (12)
Options for Britain: Measuring and Managing Public Services Performance (2008) (12)
Conclusion: Is competency management a passing fad? (2005) (12)
From Sir Humphrey to Sir Nigel: What Future for the Public Service Bargain after Blairworld? (2006) (12)
Research Essay: The Ethics of E-Health (2011) (11)
Governmental bodies and government growth (1982) (11)
Erosion and Variety in Pay for High Public Office (1995) (11)
Conclusion: making sense of controls over government (2004) (10)
Looking after Number One? Politicians' Rewards and the Economics of Politics (1992) (9)
Forging a Discipline: A Critical Assessment of Oxford's Development of the Study of Politics and International Relations in Comparative Perspective (2014) (9)
Editorial: Public Management by Numbers (2007) (8)
A Century of Fiscal Squeeze Politics: 100 Years of Austerity, Politics, and Bureaucracy in Britain (2017) (8)
RISK MANAGEMENT, POST-NORMAL SCIENCE, AND EXTENDED PEER COMMUNITIES Silvio O.Funtowicz & Jerome R.Ravetz Introduction (2003) (8)
Iconographies supplémentaires de l'article : Ranking Academic Research Performance: A Recipe for Success? (2016) (7)
Looking Ahead: The Tools of Government in the Digital Age (2007) (7)
Public spending in hard times (2009) (7)
Nine Risk Regulation Regimes Compared (2001) (6)
Regulation Inside Government: Retro‐Theory Vindicated or Outdated? (2010) (6)
INSTITUTIONS, BLAME AVOIDANCE AND NEGATIVITY BIAS: WHERE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REFORM MEETS THE 'BLAME CULTURE' (2004) (6)
The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze (2014) (5)
Privatisation good, sale of office bad? (1991) (5)
Which Organization, Whose Theory? The 9/11 Commission Report and Organization Theory (2005) (5)
2.5. Para-Government Organization in the Provision of Public Services: Three Explanations (1990) (4)
Managing risk and managing blame: a political science perspective (2002) (4)
Bureaucracies in Retrenchment (1988) (4)
The Development of Betting Taxes in Britain (1972) (4)
ALL SEASONS ? (2006) (4)
IS SAFETY A BY-PRODUCT OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT? Tom Horlick-Jones Introduction (2003) (4)
Goodhart’s Law and the Gaming of UK Public Spending Numbers (2020) (4)
The Comparative Anatomy of Risk Regulation Regimes (2001) (4)
Exploring Government’s Toolshed (1983) (4)
Higher education and university research: harnessing competition and mutuality to oversight? (2004) (3)
Gaming the system: building an online management game to spread and gather insights into the dynamics of performance management systems* (2019) (3)
Cutbacks and Public Bureaucracy: Consequences in Australia (1990) (3)
17. Concepts of Control over Public Bureaucracies: ‘Comptrol’ and ‘Interpolate Balance’ (1991) (3)
Can cultural theory give us a handle on the difference context makes to management by numbers?: The Missing Link? (2013) (3)
Knowing What to Do@@@Administrative Argument (1994) (3)
Public Management by Numbers (2007) (3)
From Secret Garden to Reign of Terror? the Regulation of State Schools in England (1999) (3)
J. G. March and J. P. Olsen Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics, New York, Free Press, 1989 (1990) (3)
Who loves input controls? What happened to “outputs not inputs” in UK Public Financial Management, and why? (2021) (2)
The Tax State in the Information Age (2020) (2)
Discretion and Blame Avoidance (2019) (2)
CHAPTER NINE : HOMEOSTATIC VERSUS COLLIBRATIONIST APPROACHES TO RISK MANAGEMENT (2003) (2)
The top pay game and good governance - where immodest theories meet slippery facts (2002) (2)
PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: INDICATING THE WAY TO BETTER PUBLIC SERVICES? (2008) (2)
EXPLORING THE ROLE OF CIVIC SCIENCE IN RISK MANAGEMENT Timothy O’Riordan Science in flux (2003) (2)
The Drive to Modernize (2010) (2)
What could work for future workplaces, beyond working? (2018) (2)
RISK MANAGEMENT: AN ECONOMIST’S APPROACH Sir Christopher Foster Introduction (2003) (2)
Bureaucrats at the Mountain Tops: Helping or Hindering Leadership and Democracy? (2001) (2)
Institutions and risk management: problem solvers or blame-shifters (1999) (2)
Where the State of the Art Meets the Art of the State: Traditional Public-Bureaucracy Controls in the Information Age (2000) (2)
Doing Public Management the Fatalist Way (2000) (1)
CHAPTER EIGHT : SHOULD REGULATION BE TARGETED ON PHYSICAL PRODUCTS OR INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSES? (2003) (1)
Opinion‐Responsive Government and Risk Regulation (2001) (1)
META‐REGULATION IN PRACTICE: BEYOND NORMATIVE VIEWS OF MORALITY AND RATIONALITY F.C.Simon London and New York: Routledge, 2017 (2018) (1)
Widen Your Horizon (1977) (1)
Comment l'administration britannique cultive la performance (2005) (1)
No Sleaze Please, We're Priggish (1995) (1)
Organisation, Direct Action, Treatment (1983) (1)
PROFESSOR ANDREW DUNSIRE 1924–2015 (2016) (1)
Did Government Cost Less (2015) (1)
British Public Administration (2003) (1)
Doing Public Management the Egalitarian Way (2000) (1)
The Politics of Evaluation: Participation and Policy Implementation – By D. Taylor and S. Balloch (2007) (1)
Local leadership for global times (2007) (1)
The Family Fund: Implications of an Unorthodox Agency (1977) (1)
Comparing the Tools of Government (2007) (1)
specific conditions for the SHARK strategy (2003) (1)
'A Tale of Two Quangocracies': Membership of Commercial Public Boards in Britain — 1950-style and 1980-style (1983) (1)
How Far Does Context Shape Content in Risk Regulation Regimes (2001) (1)
Public Management, Rhetoric, and Culture (2000) (1)
The current government is aiming for cuts to administration costs that have never previously been achieved (2012) (1)
Introducing Public Service Bargains (2006) (1)
Modernization, Balance, and Variety (2010) (1)
Mary Douglas, How Institutions Think , London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, 146 pp., £7.95. (1987) (1)
Incentives and Public Service Performance: A Special Issue (2010) (1)
Control and Regulation in Public Management (2000) (1)
KEEPING A DOG AND BARKING YOURSELF? SEVEN QUESTIONS ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT-ENTERPRISE RELATIONSHIP* (1986) (1)
Taking Stock: The State of the Art of the State (2000) (1)
The Crown Agents Affair (1978) (1)
Chapter 4. Agency Strategies: Direct or Delegate, Choose or Inherit? (2010) (1)
Appraising Government’s Tools (1983) (1)
Higher civil servants: neither mutuality implosion nor oversight explosion (2004) (1)
Michael Power, The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification, Oxford, Oxford University Press 1997 £19.99, ISBN 0-19-828947-2 (1998) (1)
Implicit assumptions about risks (2003) (0)
The General Background (2015) (0)
Chapter 7. Mixing and Matching Blame-Avoidance Strategies (2010) (0)
‘Treasure’ and Cheque-Book Government (1983) (0)
Regulating ‘Village Life’ In Central Government (1999) (0)
The evidence paradox – or when is a series not a series? (2015) (0)
Tokens of Authority (1983) (0)
Competency in Public Service Bargains: Wonks, Sages, Deliverers, and Go‐Betweens (2006) (0)
CHAPTER SIX : RISK REDUCTION, BUT AT WHAT PRICE? (2003) (0)
Chapter 6. The Institutional Dynamics of Blameworld: A New Teflon Era? (2010) (0)
Regime Content and Context Revisited: An Overall Picture (2001) (0)
Comparing Fiscal Squeezes Across Nine Country Cases (2014) (0)
Calamity, Conspiracy, and Chaos in Public Management (2000) (0)
Designing Bureaucracies@@@Administrative Analysis: An Introduction to Rules, Enforcement and Organizations@@@Bureaucratic Responsibility@@@Enforcement or Negotiation: Constructing a Regulatory Bureaucracy (1987) (0)
Robert Goodin (ed) The Theory of Institutional Design, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0521471192 £35, $49.95 (1996) (0)
WHERE THE STATE OF THE ART MEETS THE ART OF THE STATE: INFORMATION-AGE TECHNOLOGIES AND AGE-OLD ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROLS (1999) (0)
Alternative Approaches to the Tools of Government (2007) (0)
Running the Ruler Over Regulation Inside Government (1999) (0)
Prisons: varying oversight and mutuality, much tinkering, limited control (2004) (0)
Advice, Information, Persuasion (1983) (0)
The Regime Perspective in Risk Regulation: Implications for Policy and Institutional Design (2001) (0)
Mirror Image or Double Whammy? Regulation and Local Government (1999) (0)
Regulation in Government and the ‘New Public Management’ (1999) (0)
Risk and government (2011) (0)
History shows Osborne’s proposed spending cuts after 2015 would be unusual but not unprecedented in terms of duration and depth (2014) (0)
Data Analysis and Citizenship Focus: Analytic Master Keys to Better Governance? (2008) (0)
Not What it Said on the Tin (2015) (0)
How Public Service Bargains Change and Fall (2006) (0)
Interests, Lobbies, and Experts (2001) (0)
Regulation in Government: Tools, Characteristics, and Behaviour (1999) (0)
A Changing Mix of Government Tools (1983) (0)
Reward in Public Service Bargains: Pyramids, Noblesse Oblige, Turkey Races, and Lotteries of Life (2006) (0)
Performance Data Breaks (2015) (0)
Loyalty and Responsibility in Public Service Bargains: Judges, Partners, Executives, and Jesters (2006) (0)
Chapter 8. Democracy, Good Governance, and Blame Avoidance (2010) (0)
The Earthscan Reader on Risk (2008) (0)
Doing Public Management the Hierarchist Way (2000) (0)
Public Service Managerialism and Public Service Bargains: Control, Blame Avoidance, and Cheating (2006) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN : TO WHAT EXTENT IS RISK MANAGEMENT BEST LEFT TO EXPERTS? (2003) (0)
The UK Geddes Axe of the 1920s in Perspective (2014) (0)
Book Review: Murray Horn, The Political Economy of Public Administration: Institutional Choice in the Public Sector (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. ix, 263, A$34.95: (1998) (0)
From growth to retrenchment? A perspective on the development of the Scottish Office in the 1980s (1985) (0)
Trustee‐Type Public Service Bargains (2006) (0)
Explaining inter-state variation in aid for children at private religious schools in the United States, up to 2012 (2014) (0)
The open systems paradox (2003) (0)
Administrative Control, Collusive Conflict and Uncoupled Hierarchies (1975) (0)
Blame: retribution and deterrence (2003) (0)
Regulating the Regulators: Policies for Reform (1999) (0)
Comparing the Scottish Office with ‘Whitehall’: A Quantitative Approach (1979) (0)
Bureaucratic gamekeeping: regulation of UK public administration 1976-96 (2000) (0)
All Bark, No Bite? The Regulation of Prisons in England and Wales (1999) (0)
Yesterday’s Tomorrows Revisited—the Route to Better and Cheaper Public Services (2015) (0)
Exploring the ‘Market Failure’ Hypothesis (2001) (0)
INSTRUCTION TO DELIVER: TONY BLAIR, PUBLIC SERVICES AND THE CHALLENGE OF ACHIEVING TARGETS - by Michael Barber (2008) (0)
Chapter 5. Policy or Operational Strategies (2010) (0)
Public Management: Seven Propositions (2000) (0)
Re: A balanced Approach (2018) (0)
Tsar-tsar galore (2003) (0)
Can You End the Party without Tears? The Electoral Effects of Fiscal Squeeze (2013) (0)
Re: Fewer, better thought out targets needed. (2017) (0)
How is risk quantification used in decision-making? (2003) (0)
Alike at the summit (2002) (0)
A Cultural Theory Perspective (2016) (0)
The 2021 John Gaus Award Lecture: Public Administration and the War Against COVID (2022) (0)
D. B. Bobrow and J. S. Dryzek Policy Analysis by Design , Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987. (1988) (0)
A Regulatory State Inside the State (1999) (0)
Agency‐Type Public Service Bargains (2006) (0)
Consistency and Fairness in Administration (2015) (0)
Regime Development Under Pressure: Staged Retreats and Lateral Mutations (2001) (0)
What Are Risk Regulation Regimes? Why Do They Matter? (2001) (0)
Christopher Pollitt, Manipulating the Machine: Changing the Pattern of Ministerial Departments 1960–83 , London, Allen and Unwin 1984, 269 pp., £18. (1984) (0)
Europe managing the crisis: The politics of fiscal consolidation. Walter J.M. Kickert and Tiina Randma-Liiv. Routledge, New York, 2015. 308 pp. $145 (cloth) (2017) (0)
Comparative Perspectives on Performance (2015) (0)
Chapter 2. Players in the Blame Game: Inside the World of Blame Avoidance (2010) (0)
Re: No more auditors - please (2018) (0)
Doing Public Management the Individualist Way (2000) (0)
Chapter 9. The Last Word (2010) (0)
Re: NHS Targets (2017) (0)
Evaluating Government’s Toolkit (2007) (0)
Appearing in front of a Select Committee: does this prove that we had an impact or were we a convenient political cover for positions already taken? (2011) (0)
Government as a Tool-Kit (1983) (0)
Blame: guilt and vindication (2003) (0)
Chapter 1. Credit Claiming, Blame Avoidance, and Negativity Bias (2010) (0)
Chapter 3. Presentational Strategies: Winning the Argument, Drawing a Line, Changing the Subject, and Keeping a Low Profile (2010) (0)
The training guarantee scheme: an overview and some questions answered. by Christopher Hood (1990) (0)
Background to current process regulation of biotechnology in Europe (2003) (0)
Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services: Foreword (2010) (0)

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