David Hine, Gillian Peele

The regulation of standards in British public life

Doing the right thing?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an analysis of the revolution of the last two decades that has built an extensive new regulatory apparatus governing British public ethics. The book sets the new machinery in the wider institutional framework of British government. Its main purpose is to understand the dilemmas of regulatory design that have emerged in each area examined.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9780719097133
• ISBN-10: 0719097134
• Artikelnr.: 42793907

Autorenporträt

David Hine is Official Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Christ Church, University of Oxford Gillian Peele is Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Regulating public ethics in the United Kingdom 1. Building
integrity machinery: the origins 2. Building integrity machinery: the
Committee on Standards in Public Life 3. The House of Commons: the slow
erosion of self-regulation 4. IPSA: the costs and benefits of external
regulation 5. Reluctant reform in the House of Lords 6. Regulating ethics
at the centre: the Ministerial Code 7. Whitehall Wars: keeping politics out
of the civil service 8. Revolving doors and regulated afterlives:
post-employment for ministers and civil servants 9. Getting to grips with
lobbies: regulated office-holders, unregulated lobbies 10. The Electoral
Commission and party funding 11. Regulation of ethics in local government
12. Regulation beyond the centre: ethics in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast
Conclusion: Standards, office-holders and public opinion: higher standards,
lower credibility? Bibliography Index