附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: Controlling public services and government: towards a cross-national perspective; Chapter 2: Prisons: varying oversight and mutuality, much tinkering, limited control; Chapter 3: Higher education and university research: harnessing competition and mutuality to oversight?; Chapter 4: Higher civil servants: neither mutuality implosion nor oversight explosion; Chapter 5: Conclusion: making sense of controls over government; Bibliography; Index.
摘要:Controlling Modern Government' explores the long-term development of controls over government across five major state traditions in developed democracies - US, Japan, variants of continental-European models, a Scandinavian case and variants of the Westminster model.
