TY - BOOK AU - Hood,Christopher TI - Controlling modern government: variety, commonality, and change SN - 1843766299 AV - JF1351 .C655 2004 U1 - 351 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA PB - Edward Elgar Pub. KW - Public administration KW - Comparative government N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - The book seeks to compare control of government across time, across policy domains and across countries. It examines what happened to control systems for public services over a generation or so, in three different domains of government and public policy within eight different state traditions. The three domains are prisons, higher education and the conduct of senior civil servants, and the eight different traditions comprise of Australia, the USA, Japan, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Norway. ER -