Regulation Inside Government: Waste-Watchers, Quality Police, and Sleaze-Busters

by Christopher Hood, Oliver James, Colin H. Scott

Based on two years of unprecedented access to the inner workings of Whitehall, this book by a leading team of scholars examines the army of inspectors, auditors, grievance-chasers and other bodies devoted to oversight of public organisations while documenting their remarkable growth over the last two decades.

282 pages, Hardcover

First published May 27, 1999