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Regulation Inside Government: Where New Public Management Meets the Audit Explosion

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  • Christopher Hood
  • Oliver James
  • George Jones
  • Colin Scott
  • Tony Travers

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This article explores the scale and growth of regulation inside UK government, defined as standard-setting and monitoring by bodies constituted at arm’s-length from those they oversee. It argues regulation inside government is comparable in scale to regulation of business and has grown sharply over two decades, while public organizations in general have substantially downsized. Regulation inside government is highly diverse and there is a marked disjunction between the control regimes applied by regulators of government to those they regulate and the way the regulators are themselves assessed and controlled.

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  • Christopher Hood & Oliver James & George Jones & Colin Scott & Tony Travers, 1998. "Regulation Inside Government: Where New Public Management Meets the Audit Explosion," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(2), pages 61-68, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:18:y:1998:i:2:p:61-68
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9302.00117
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    1. Michael, Bryane & Gubin, Alexey, 2012. "Compliance Audit of Anti-Corruption Regulations: A Case Study from Carpatistan Customs," MPRA Paper 44693, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Oliver James, 2001. "New Public Management in the UK: Enduring Legacy or Fatal Remedy?," International Review of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(2), pages 15-26, December.
    3. Lee, Bill, 2010. "The individual learning account experiment in the UK: A conjunctural crisis?," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 21(1), pages 18-30.
    4. Power, Michael, 2021. "Modelling the microfoundations of the audit society: organizations and the logic of the audit trail," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 100243, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    5. Kristian Krieger, 2013. "The limits and variety of risk‐based governance: The case of flood management in Germany and England," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 7(2), pages 236-257, June.
    6. Olov Olson & Christopher Humphrey & James Guthrie, 2001. "Caught in an evaluatory trap: a dilemma for public services under NPFM," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(3), pages 505-522.
    7. Roy Valiant Salomo & Krisna Puji Rahmayanti, 2023. "Progress and Institutional Challenges on Local Governments Performance Accountability System Reform in Indonesia," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(4), pages 21582440231, October.

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