Malcolm K. Sparrow is Professor of the Practice of Public Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is Faculty Chair of the Master of Public Policy Program, and of Executive Programs on regulatory and enforcement strategy, corruption control, and counter-terrorism. A mathematician by training, he joined the British Police Service in 1977, serving for ten years and rising to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. He left the police to take up a faculty appointment at Harvard in 1988.
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Nature of the Control Task: 1. Which way up, and does it matter?
2. A different kind of work
3. Defining problems: setting the scale
4. Defining problems: picking the dimensions
5. Patterns of thought and action
6. Puzzles of measurement
7. Structures, protocols and interactions
Part II. Special Categories of Harm: 8. Invisible harms
9. Conscious opponents
10. Catastrophic harms
11. Harms in equilibrium
12. Performance-enhancing risks
Conclusion.
