Martin J. (Hrsg.) Smith

Quangos, Accountability and Reform

The Politics of Quasi-Government

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Quangos are now a permanent layer of governance in Britain. This collection challenges the stale debate which portrays quangos as inherently undemocratic. Whilst accepting that problems exist this book accepts that quangos are here to stay. Through a collection of chapters by practitioners, politicians and academics it recognises both the pitfalls and potential offered by these bodies. The book therefore illuminates a new perspective on the debate which for the first time highlights the democratic possibilities of quangos. The book advances and clarifies this complex debate by examining the British reform debate in an international context, a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Flinders, Matthew V. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-349-27027-9
EAN: 9781349270279
Produktnummer: 33316255
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 22'146 KB
Abbildungen: Bibliographie

Über den Autor

SIR PETER BALDWIN KCB Chairman of the Charities Aid FoundationALAN BOOKER Formerly Deputy Director General of Water Services (OFWAT)DR JURGEN FIEDLER Sub-Director in the German Federal Ministry of Finance in BonnALISTAIR GRAHAM Chief Executive at the Leeds TECDR CARSTEN GREVE Assistant Professor in Public Administration at the University of CopenhagenBRIAN LANDERS Formerly Finance Director of the Prison Service 1993-96; Chief Executive of WaterstonesPROF. FRANS L. LEEUW Professor and Director of the Department of Humanities, Netherlands Open UniversityANTHONY MAYER Chief Executive of the Housing CorporationHUGH MCCONNEL Formerly PERC Quango Project OfficerANDREW PEET Councillor for Tameside Metropolitan Borough CouncilANDREW PURSSELL Currently employed as Environmental Policy Officer PROF. GERRY STOKER Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde SANDRA VAN THIEL Research Fellow at the Inter-University Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS)DR ENID WISTRICH Research Co-ordinator in the School of History and Politics at Middlesex UniversityDR TONY WRIGHT Member of Parliament for Cannock Chase, author of Citizens and Subjects and Socialisms