Alan Doig
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Doig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Doig |
| SIGNATURE | DOIG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool John Moores University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3826-2917 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Wars of Choice or Crime? The National Interest, State Crime and Official Overseas British Military Interventions Since 1945
Since 1945 British governments, as a matter of official policy, have undertaken a number of military interventions against another sovereign state. Some interventions were justified on the grounds that they delivered United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) whether through another international organization such as the North atlantic Treaty Organisation (NaTO) or as a joint state activity. Others have been justified on humanitarian gro…
Roadworks Ahead? Addressing Fraud, Corruption and Conflict of Interest in English Local Government
The current localism agenda, and other legislative and organisational changes, will impact on English local government’s capacity and commitment to address fraud, corruption and conflict of interest from both investigative and preventative perspectives. These have been issues for local government since the nineteenth century onwards, often brought to prominence during specific scandals or periods of extensive change. This article summarises the r…
Why the Gap? Turkey, EU Accession, Corruption and Culture
Accession of Turkey to the European Union (EU) has brought a focus on issues of corruption and public ethics. The various reviews have emphasized that these issues are both long-standing and continuing. Given that such issues have been concerning the EU both before and after the accession of other countries, the current Turkish context is assessed in terms of laws, institutions and strategies. The article argues that Turkey is well-served in term…
Conclusion
There is no doubt that corruption in Turkey has a continuing and pervasive presence, with less evidence that it is diminishing and more evidence that corruption continues to be embedded in the political and administrative structures. On the other hand, it is also clear that Turkey has substantial legal and institutional means to address corruption. Part of the reason that they do not appear to have significantly impacted on corruption may be the …
Numbers, words and KYC
Purpose International business is under increasing legal pressure to ensure compliance with legal and other standards on corruption, and thus needs to undertake due diligence on corruption. This paper aims to emphasise that existing sources of information on corruption in specific countries are often limited for interpretative purposes. Design/methodology/approach Using a number of country studies that look at the causes and legal and institution…
Ducking the answer? Fraud strategies and police resources
The 2006 UK Fraud Review took a strategic approach to fraud, addressing a spectrum of issues from prevention in the private sector to the introduction of plea bargaining in criminal cases. The work of the review was followed by the establishment of a National Strategic Fraud Authority (now the National Fraud Authority) to deliver a comprehensive strategy. Underlying both the background to the review and the implementation of the strategy has been…
Inter-agency work and the UK public sector investigation of fraud, 1996–2006
Most policing activity in the area of UK public sector fraud is undertaken not by the police but by departmental investigators. This article explores the shifting rhetoric and on-the-ground efforts to escape departmental silos in order to address ‘the problem of fraud’ and fraudsters more efficiently and effectively via ‘joined up working’. These public sector reforms have been promoted principally by the National Audit Office and government. It …
Marching in time
This article considers how three countries—the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia—approached the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by examining how the leaders’ decision-making interacted, the commonalities of their policy-making processes, and the approach to policy justification taken in terms of their domestic political environments. In particular, it examines the extent to which their claims as to why invasion was necessary…
Common Ground, Common Future
Nothing Like A Dame
Andrew Hosken (2006) Nothing Like a Dame. The Scandals of Shirley Porter, London: Granta Books. Pp. xii + 372. £20 hb. This is a thoroughly researched and factual book by an experienced BBC journal
Dirty Hands and the Donors
Numbers, nuances and moving targets
This article is concerned with three issues: the convergence of donors over a shared development agenda, on why dealing with corruption is seen as a key aspect of the agenda, and the means to assess corruption within the context of monitoring development progress. The article reviews the genesis of the agenda, and why corruption is often used as an indicator or measure of progress. It distinguishes between two general approaches—quantitative indi…
Researching Ethics for Public Service Organizations
This article reviews and assesses the state of research on public sector ethics and corruption in Europe as published primarily in journal articles in the past five years. The themes examined include the public service ethos, the regulation of conduct, trust, individual behavior, the role of professionals, and corruption. The article concludes by calling for more comparative research, a better mix of theory and practice, and the development of a …
Regional Variations
Journal Article Regional Variations: Organisational and Procedural Dimensions of Public Ethics Delivery Ten Years After Nolan Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Professor of Public Services Management, Teesside Business School, University of Teesside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 3, July 2006, Pages 458–473, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsl033 Published: 12 June 2006
The UK, the Commonwealth and corruption
Donors currently place emphasis on the need to address corruption in an increasingly coordinated fashion as part of their support for the wider development and democratisation agenda. Findings from country study reports which used the National Integrity System (NIS) approach for assessing types and levels of corruption indicate both that corruption persists and that donor coordination is evidenced in developing the resultant anti-corruption strat…
The National Interest and the Politics of Threat Exaggeration
During the 2005 General Election the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, suggested that the invasion of Iraq was in 'the national interest'. Whether he knew it or not, this phrase has often referred to controversial decisions taken by governments, away from scrutiny and subject to criticism when made public, but which they believe are in the best interests of the British state. The article summarises the consequences of the invasion in ter…
Corruption and democratisation
Sleaze and Trust
Journal Article Sleaze and Trust: Labour Trades Mistrust for Sleaze Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Professor of Public Services Management, Teesside Business School, University of Teesside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 394–407, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi030 Published: 01 April 2005
Minutes of Infamy? Hutton, Blair and the Invasion of Iraq
Journal Article 45 Minutes of Infamy? Hutton, Blair and the Invasion of Iraq Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Business School, University of Teeside, Middlesborough Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 109–123, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi010 Published: 01 January 2005
The Hutton Inquiry
Journal Article The Hutton Inquiry: Origins and Issues Get access Alan Doig, Alan Doig Business School, University of Teeside, Middlesborough Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Phythian Mark Phythian History and Governance Research Institute, University of Wolverhampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages …
Sleaze, Ethics and Codes
2003 was marked by the continuing efforts of the ethics regulators—the Electoral Commission, the Committee on Standards in Public Life and the Parliamentary Commissioner on Standards—to deal with the problems in public life which often attract the label ‘sleaze&’, and by a number of transient news stories. Allegations involving the wives of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, as well as a number of MPs appearing to misunderstand …
Politics and Sleaze
Sleaze in 2002 was dominated by the continuing legacy of the Conservatives' reputation when in office from 1992 to 1997 and concerns about large donations to the Labour Party and allegations of insider access. Neither party was dogged by the types or scale of scandals they have faced in the past, nor with the types faced some other European governments. Nevertheless, ghosts from the past and continuing scepticism over the reasons for donations to…
Ethics in Local Government
Local government in England and Wales is subject to the implementation of the Labour government's 'new ethical framework' legislation. This involves a statutory code of conduct for councillors, local standards committees to promote good practice and external investigative and adjudicative bodies to deal with allegations of misconduct. Prior to this many local authorities had adopted a self-regulatory approach to improving their ethical practice. …
New Public Management, Old Populism and the Policing of Fraud
While the cost of fraud is difficult to determine, it is significantly greater than other crimes. Nevertheless fraud has not been a policing priority either for governments or for individual police forces. The provision of policing resources has declined in favour of other policing objectives where there is a continuing emphasis on a political agenda concerned with public order and property crime. At the same time, the resources which are devoted…
Introduction
Feature review Corruption and its control in the developmental context
This essay both seeks to locate corruption within the current development agenda and to provide a representative overview of the literature, both academic and practitioner, that addresses corruption in this context. The essay provides a background to the study of corruption, and discusses its impact and control in the developmental environment, before following with an annotated selection of representative texts, arranged in the following section…
Researching Ethics for Public Service Organizations
This article reviews and assesses the state of research on public sector ethics and corruption in Europe as published primarily in journal articles in the past five years. The themes examined include the public service ethos, the regulation of conduct, trust, individual behavior, the role of professionals, and corruption. The article concludes by calling for more comparative research, a better mix of theory and practice, and the development of a …
Inquiries into child abuse
In the light of the setting up of a Tribunal of Inquiry to investigate abuse of children in homes in North Wales, this article considers key issues about the general choice of types of inquiries and their use to look into the circumstances of cases of child abuse. The article presents data from a survey of published inquiry reports into child abuse from 1945 to the present day. In all, seventy reports are identified and sixty-one of these are exa…
Cash for Questions
Journal Article 'Cash for Questions': Parliament's Response to the Offence that Dare Not Speak its Name Get access ALAN DOIG ALAN DOIG *Professor of Public Sector Management at Liverpool John Moores University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 36–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028774 Published: 01 January 1998
Ducking the answer? Fraud strategies and police resources
The 2006 UK Fraud Review took a strategic approach to fraud, addressing a spectrum of issues from prevention in the private sector to the introduction of plea bargaining in criminal cases. The work of the review was followed by the establishment of a National Strategic Fraud Authority (now the National Fraud Authority) to deliver a comprehensive strategy. Underlying both the background to the review and the implementation of the strategy has been…
Inter-agency work and the UK public sector investigation of fraud, 1996–2006
Most policing activity in the area of UK public sector fraud is undertaken not by the police but by departmental investigators. This article explores the shifting rhetoric and on-the-ground efforts to escape departmental silos in order to address ‘the problem of fraud’ and fraudsters more efficiently and effectively via ‘joined up working’. These public sector reforms have been promoted principally by the National Audit Office and government. It …
Marching in time
This article considers how three countries—the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia—approached the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by examining how the leaders’ decision-making interacted, the commonalities of their policy-making processes, and the approach to policy justification taken in terms of their domestic political environments. In particular, it examines the extent to which their claims as to why invasion was necessary…
Ethics in Local Government
Local government in England and Wales is subject to the implementation of the Labour government's 'new ethical framework' legislation. This involves a statutory code of conduct for councillors, local standards committees to promote good practice and external investigative and adjudicative bodies to deal with allegations of misconduct. Prior to this many local authorities had adopted a self-regulatory approach to improving their ethical practice. …
Mixed Signals? Public Sector Change and the Proper Conduct of Public Business
What begun after the 1979 General Election as an exercise to reduce the public sector's size and cost developed during the 1980s into continuous change to its organization, functions and structure. Throughout this process it appeared that certain assumptions were made about the presence and continuity of standards of conduct, the proper conduct of public business and the sense of public service. Such assumptions appear to have been based on a bel…
Roadworks Ahead? Addressing Fraud, Corruption and Conflict of Interest in English Local Government
The current localism agenda, and other legislative and organisational changes, will impact on English local government’s capacity and commitment to address fraud, corruption and conflict of interest from both investigative and preventative perspectives. These have been issues for local government since the nineteenth century onwards, often brought to prominence during specific scandals or periods of extensive change. This article summarises the r…
New Public Management, Old Populism and the Policing of Fraud
While the cost of fraud is difficult to determine, it is significantly greater than other crimes. Nevertheless fraud has not been a policing priority either for governments or for individual police forces. The provision of policing resources has declined in favour of other policing objectives where there is a continuing emphasis on a political agenda concerned with public order and property crime. At the same time, the resources which are devoted…
Introduction
The National Interest and the Politics of Threat Exaggeration
During the 2005 General Election the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, suggested that the invasion of Iraq was in 'the national interest'. Whether he knew it or not, this phrase has often referred to controversial decisions taken by governments, away from scrutiny and subject to criticism when made public, but which they believe are in the best interests of the British state. The article summarises the consequences of the invasion in ter…
Corruption and democratisation
What Price New Public Management
The Machinery of Government and the Growth of Governmental Bodies
Why the Gap? Turkey, EU Accession, Corruption and Culture
Accession of Turkey to the European Union (EU) has brought a focus on issues of corruption and public ethics. The various reviews have emphasized that these issues are both long-standing and continuing. Given that such issues have been concerning the EU both before and after the accession of other countries, the current Turkish context is assessed in terms of laws, institutions and strategies. The article argues that Turkey is well-served in term…
Numbers, nuances and moving targets
This article is concerned with three issues: the convergence of donors over a shared development agenda, on why dealing with corruption is seen as a key aspect of the agenda, and the means to assess corruption within the context of monitoring development progress. The article reviews the genesis of the agenda, and why corruption is often used as an indicator or measure of progress. It distinguishes between two general approaches—quantitative indi…
In the state we trust? Democratisation, corruption and development
(1999). In the state we trust? Democratisation, corruption and development. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 37, Corruption and Democratisation, pp. 13-36
The Double Whammy
Journal Article The Double Whammy: The Resignation of David Mellor, MP1 Get access ALAN DOIG ALAN DOIG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 46, Issue 2, April 1993, Pages 167–178, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052410 Published: 01 April 1993
Sleaze and Trust
Journal Article Sleaze and Trust: Labour Trades Mistrust for Sleaze Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Professor of Public Services Management, Teesside Business School, University of Teesside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 394–407, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi030 Published: 01 April 2005
Minutes of Infamy? Hutton, Blair and the Invasion of Iraq
Journal Article 45 Minutes of Infamy? Hutton, Blair and the Invasion of Iraq Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Business School, University of Teeside, Middlesborough Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 109–123, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsi010 Published: 01 January 2005
Ethics, Integrity, Compliance and Accountability in Contemporary UK Government–Business Relations – Till Death Do Us Part
This paper takes as its main themes the impact of public choice theory and the impact of Thatcherism and the rise of public management on the delivery of public services. These themes have created, according to a Chief Executive of a Regional Health Authority, the need ‘to learn new disciplines of commercial relationships and competitive tendering and so on, and at the same time . . . remember the very important traditional public service values;…
A word desperately seeking scandal? new labour and Tony's cronies
Journal Article A word desperately seeking scandal? new labour and Tony's cronies Get access A Doig, A Doig Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar S McIvor, S McIvor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J Moran J Moran Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 4, October 1999, Pages 677–687, https://doi.org/…
Local authorities and housing benefit
Public Bodies and Ministerial Partonage
PUBLIC BODIES AND MINISTERIAL PARTONAGE Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume XXXI, Issue 1, Winter 1978, Pages 86–94, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a054245 Published: 01 January 1978
The Machinery of Government and the Growth of Governmental Bodies
Self-Discipline and the House of Commons
SELF-DISCIPLINE AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS: THE POULSON AFFAIR IN A PARLIAMENTARY PERSPECTIVE Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 32, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 248–267, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051784 Published: 01 January 1979
Watergate, Poulson and the Reform of Standards of Conduct
Journal Article Watergate, Poulson and the Reform of Standards of Conduct Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 36, Issue 3, 1983, Pages 316–333, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/36.3.316 Published: 01 July 1983
Influencing Westminster
Journal Article INFLUENCING WESTMINSTER: REGISTERING THE LOBBYSISTS Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 39, Issue 4, October 1986, Pages 517–535, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052069 Published: 01 October 1986
The Resignation of Edwina Currie
Journal Article THE RESIGNATION OF EDWINA CURRIE: A WORD TOO FAR Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 42, Issue 3, July 1989, Pages 317–329, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052201 Published: 01 July 1989
The Curse of Spycatcher
THE CURSE OF SPYCATCHER Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 3, July 1990, Pages 382–383, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052260 Published: 01 July 1990
The Double Whammy
Journal Article The Double Whammy: The Resignation of David Mellor, MP1 Get access ALAN DOIG ALAN DOIG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 46, Issue 2, April 1993, Pages 167–178, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052410 Published: 01 April 1993
Full Circle or Dead End? What Next For The Select Committee on Members‘ Interests
Journal Article Full Circle or Dead End? What Next For The Select Committee on Members‘ Interests? Get access ALAN DOIG ALAN DOIG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 47, Issue 3, July 1994, Pages 355–373, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052480 Published: 01 July 1994
The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Journal Article THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 1994, Pages 317–318, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052476 Published: 01 April 1994
Mixed Signals? Public Sector Change and the Proper Conduct of Public Business
What begun after the 1979 General Election as an exercise to reduce the public sector's size and cost developed during the 1980s into continuous change to its organization, functions and structure. Throughout this process it appeared that certain assumptions were made about the presence and continuity of standards of conduct, the proper conduct of public business and the sense of public service. Such assumptions appear to have been based on a bel…
Untangling the Threads of Sleaze
Untangling the Threads of Sleaze: The Slide Into Nolan Get access ALAN DOIG, ALAN DOIG Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN WILSON JOHN WILSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 562–578, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052556 Published: 01 October 1995
Continuing cause for concern? Probity in local government
From Lynskey to Nolan
organization. The wider, academic use of 'corruption', used as shorthand to describe any use of official position, resources or facilities for personal benefit, or in milder form possible conflict of interest between public position and private benefit, is dealt with in part by legislation, by common law (which includes the offence of misconduct in public office) and by internal regulations. The more general question of what is now termed 'the et…
Next Steps to the Supremacy of Parliament
Journal Article NEXT STEPS TO THE SUPREMACY OF PARLIAMENT? Get access Alan Doig Alan Doig ** Professor of Public Services Management, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 49, Issue 3, July 1996, Pages 509–511, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/49.3.509 Published: 01 July 1996
Truth-Telling and Power
Journal Article Truth-Telling and Power Get access ALAN DOIG ALAN DOIG *Professor of Public Sector Management, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 143–165, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028710 Published: 01 January 1997
Local authorities and housing benefit
The Privatisation of the Property Services Agency
The Property Services Agency was a ‘hived-off’ government organisation responsible for the design, building, renting and maintenance of government property and associated facilities. Its expenditure, and delivery of its functions, were criticised for fraud, waste and inefficiency while it was involved in a number of cases of contract-related fraud and corruption. As the Property Services Agency began to deal with the latter concerns, the governme…
Inquiries into child abuse
In the light of the setting up of a Tribunal of Inquiry to investigate abuse of children in homes in North Wales, this article considers key issues about the general choice of types of inquiries and their use to look into the circumstances of cases of child abuse. The article presents data from a survey of published inquiry reports into child abuse from 1945 to the present day. In all, seventy reports are identified and sixty-one of these are exa…
Dancing To Whose Tune? Change And Investigations In Hm Customs And Excise
The public sector has been subject to significant organizational and cultural change in the past two decades. The purpose of change has been the cost‐efficient and cost‐effective delivery of public services and functions. The process of change has been concerned with the best means to do this, whether in structural, cultural and procedural terms. Without careful determination of the services and functions from the onset, the process, however, can…
What Price New Public Management
Cash for Questions
Journal Article 'Cash for Questions': Parliament's Response to the Offence that Dare Not Speak its Name Get access ALAN DOIG ALAN DOIG *Professor of Public Sector Management at Liverpool John Moores University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 36–50, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a028774 Published: 01 January 1998
Introduction
In the state we trust? Democratisation, corruption and development
(1999). In the state we trust? Democratisation, corruption and development. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 37, Corruption and Democratisation, pp. 13-36
Ethics, Integrity, Compliance and Accountability in Contemporary UK Government–Business Relations – Till Death Do Us Part
This paper takes as its main themes the impact of public choice theory and the impact of Thatcherism and the rise of public management on the delivery of public services. These themes have created, according to a Chief Executive of a Regional Health Authority, the need ‘to learn new disciplines of commercial relationships and competitive tendering and so on, and at the same time . . . remember the very important traditional public service values;…
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