Edited by the late Christopher Hood, formerly Emeritus Professor of Government, Department of Politics and International Relations and Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oliver James, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK, B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor Emeritus of Government, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, US and Colin Scott, Vice-Principal for Research and Innovation, UCD College of Business and Law and Professor of EU Regulation and Governance, UCD School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland

'The editors and authors are to be congratulated on a book that is unusually well integrated, filled with interesting findings, and, best of all, theoretically sophisticated and stimulating.'

• Contents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Controlling Public Services and Government: Towards a Cross-National Perspective Part II: Control over Government in Three Domains 2. Prisons: Varying Oversight and Mutuality, Much Tinkering, Limited Control 3. Higher Education and University Research: Harnessing Competition and Mutuality to Oversight? 4. Higher Civil Servants: Neither Mutuality Implosion nor Oversight Explosion Part III: Conclusions 5. Conclusion: Making Sense of Controls over Government Bibliography Index

Edited by the late Christopher Hood, formerly Emeritus Professor of Government, Department of Politics and International Relations and Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oliver James, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK, B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor Emeritus of Government, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, US and Colin Scott, Vice-Principal for Research and Innovation, UCD College of Business and Law and Professor of EU Regulation and Governance, UCD School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland

'The editors and authors are to be congratulated on a book that is unusually well integrated, filled with interesting findings, and, best of all, theoretically sophisticated and stimulating.'

• Contents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Controlling Public Services and Government: Towards a Cross-National Perspective Part II: Control over Government in Three Domains 2. Prisons: Varying Oversight and Mutuality, Much Tinkering, Limited Control 3. Higher Education and University Research: Harnessing Competition and Mutuality to Oversight? 4. Higher Civil Servants: Neither Mutuality Implosion nor Oversight Explosion Part III: Conclusions 5. Conclusion: Making Sense of Controls over Government Bibliography Index

Edited by the late Christopher Hood, formerly Emeritus Professor of Government, Department of Politics and International Relations and Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oliver James, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK, B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor Emeritus of Government, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh, US and Colin Scott, Vice-Principal for Research and Innovation, UCD College of Business and Law and Professor of EU Regulation and Governance, UCD School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland

'The editors and authors are to be congratulated on a book that is unusually well integrated, filled with interesting findings, and, best of all, theoretically sophisticated and stimulating.'

• Contents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Controlling Public Services and Government: Towards a Cross-National Perspective Part II: Control over Government in Three Domains 2. Prisons: Varying Oversight and Mutuality, Much Tinkering, Limited Control 3. Higher Education and University Research: Harnessing Competition and Mutuality to Oversight? 4. Higher Civil Servants: Neither Mutuality Implosion nor Oversight Explosion Part III: Conclusions 5. Conclusion: Making Sense of Controls over Government Bibliography Index