Brian W Hogwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian W Hogwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian W |
| FAMILY NAME | Hogwood |
| SIGNATURE | HOGWOOD B W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Testing times
This article examines the responses of ministers facing high levels of blame in the press after serious failures in the public exam system for school‐leavers in Scotland in 2000 and England in 2002. It develops a method for systematic analysis and comparison of the behaviour of officeholders facing blame, tests the hypothesis that ministers will accept personal culpability only after other ways of handling blame have been exhausted and uses time …
Towards a New Structure of Public Employment in Britain
English This article analyses trends in public employment in Britain since the I970s, comparing them with the postwar pattern of trends up to that period. The most striking development has been the dramatic decline in public employment in ‘industrial’ activities through the reduction of staff in existing industries and, since 1979, the continuing privatisation or contracting out of industrial activities. Decline elsewhere has been less dramatic a…
Problems of applying a programme approach to intergovernmental policy delivery
One set of problems facing anyone trying to track public expenditure programmes is how to handle the intergovernmental aspects. This can be illustrated by Rose and Davies's study of public expenditure in Britain. Amongst these problems are changes to the system of grants from central government to local authorities and transfers of functions between local and central government. There are also problems in the consistency with which Rose and Davie…
The Machinery of Government, 1979–97
The ‘Pondlife’ of Executive Agencies
Agencies attract the attention of MPs unequally. In focusing upon ‘informnatory responsibility’, as a prerequisite of ministerial responsibility in an era of executive agencies, the article reveals that there is no simple model or pattern of informatory responsibility, whether measured by parliamentary questions, letters from MPs, or extent of contact between ministers and agencies. Those agencies which attract the sustained interest of MPs often…
Regional administration in Britain since 1979
Public Policy
Public policy is not simply a subset of public administration, but draws on and contributes to a number of aspects of public administration, political science and other disciplines. This article traces the growth of interest in a policy focus in Britain during the 1970s and early 1980s, and its subsequent partial displacement by the emphasis on public management. Despite this partial displacement, the policy focus is now institutionalized in acad…
Whitehall Families
The 'Growth' of Quangos
Journal Article The 'Growth' of Quangos: Evidence and Explanations Get access BRIAN W. HOGWOOD BRIAN W. HOGWOOD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 207–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052527 Published: 01 April 1995
A reform beyond compare? The next steps restructuring of British central government
This article sets out a series of conditions for the successful transfer of an organizational or policy initiative from one country to another. It then assesses whether recent developments in the organization of British central government provide a model for transfer to other European countries which have also been concerned with a separation between policy‐making functions and execution through service delivery agencies. The article concludes by…
Developments in Regulatory Agencies in Britain
The Death of Immortality
Kaufman's research on the "immortality" of public organizations has led us to believe that the population of organizations in government is very stable. The research reported here finds Kaufman's work to have some serious flaws. With a different data base and different methodology, the findings are that there was a great deal of change in the U.S. federal government in the period of 1933 to 1983
Shaping Policy through the Courts
This is the second of a pair of articles on the role of the courts in shaping British public policy. The first article, in the previous issue of this journal, dealt with the British courts. This article examines how British public policy is shaped by two quite distinct systems of law and courts; first, the European Convention on Human Rights, and, second, the European Communities and the work of the European Court of Justice
Shaping Policy Through the Courts
This article centrally argues that the courts in Britain play a role in laying down general rules which is, on occasion, equivalent to the role of Parliament and the legislative process. The next issue will carry a companion piece by Brian Hogwood on the courts and the EEC and the European Convention on Human Rights
In Search of the Issue-Attention Cycle
This article seeks to establish whether an issue-attention cycle of the type described by Downs for policy relating to the environment is typical of all policy areas in the United States. Downs introduced the concept of the issue-attention cycle based on his perception of the ecology issue rather than on a quantitative analysis of issue salience. This article uses changes in U.S. federal government organizations as an indicator of policy activity…
Leon S. Robertson, Injuries
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Decision Arenas in Executive Decision Making
Decision making in political executives is an oddly neglected subject in political science. The roles played by both formal institutions and less formal mechanisms in arriving at decisions in political executives are surprisingly understudied. There have been some important comparative studies of political executives but these have tended to focus on the role of the head of the political executive – the president or prime minister. The distinctiv…
The dynamics of policy change
Monitoring in Industry
Testing times
This article examines the responses of ministers facing high levels of blame in the press after serious failures in the public exam system for school‐leavers in Scotland in 2000 and England in 2002. It develops a method for systematic analysis and comparison of the behaviour of officeholders facing blame, tests the hypothesis that ministers will accept personal culpability only after other ways of handling blame have been exhausted and uses time …
In Search of the Issue-Attention Cycle
This article seeks to establish whether an issue-attention cycle of the type described by Downs for policy relating to the environment is typical of all policy areas in the United States. Downs introduced the concept of the issue-attention cycle based on his perception of the ecology issue rather than on a quantitative analysis of issue salience. This article uses changes in U.S. federal government organizations as an indicator of policy activity…
The dynamics of policy change
The Death of Immortality
Kaufman's research on the "immortality" of public organizations has led us to believe that the population of organizations in government is very stable. The research reported here finds Kaufman's work to have some serious flaws. With a different data base and different methodology, the findings are that there was a great deal of change in the U.S. federal government in the period of 1933 to 1983
The Machinery of Government, 1979–97
Decision Arenas in Executive Decision Making
Decision making in political executives is an oddly neglected subject in political science. The roles played by both formal institutions and less formal mechanisms in arriving at decisions in political executives are surprisingly understudied. There have been some important comparative studies of political executives but these have tended to focus on the role of the head of the political executive – the president or prime minister. The distinctiv…
The 'Growth' of Quangos
Journal Article The 'Growth' of Quangos: Evidence and Explanations Get access BRIAN W. HOGWOOD BRIAN W. HOGWOOD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 207–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052527 Published: 01 April 1995
A reform beyond compare? The next steps restructuring of British central government
This article sets out a series of conditions for the successful transfer of an organizational or policy initiative from one country to another. It then assesses whether recent developments in the organization of British central government provide a model for transfer to other European countries which have also been concerned with a separation between policy‐making functions and execution through service delivery agencies. The article concludes by…
Regional administration in Britain since 1979
Leon S. Robertson, Injuries
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The ‘Pondlife’ of Executive Agencies
Agencies attract the attention of MPs unequally. In focusing upon ‘informnatory responsibility’, as a prerequisite of ministerial responsibility in an era of executive agencies, the article reveals that there is no simple model or pattern of informatory responsibility, whether measured by parliamentary questions, letters from MPs, or extent of contact between ministers and agencies. Those agencies which attract the sustained interest of MPs often…
Public Policy
Public policy is not simply a subset of public administration, but draws on and contributes to a number of aspects of public administration, political science and other disciplines. This article traces the growth of interest in a policy focus in Britain during the 1970s and early 1980s, and its subsequent partial displacement by the emphasis on public management. Despite this partial displacement, the policy focus is now institutionalized in acad…
Whitehall Families
Developments in Regulatory Agencies in Britain
Monitoring in Industry
Monitoring in Industry
The dynamics of policy change
Leon S. Robertson, Injuries
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Decision Arenas in Executive Decision Making
Decision making in political executives is an oddly neglected subject in political science. The roles played by both formal institutions and less formal mechanisms in arriving at decisions in political executives are surprisingly understudied. There have been some important comparative studies of political executives but these have tended to focus on the role of the head of the political executive – the president or prime minister. The distinctiv…
In Search of the Issue-Attention Cycle
This article seeks to establish whether an issue-attention cycle of the type described by Downs for policy relating to the environment is typical of all policy areas in the United States. Downs introduced the concept of the issue-attention cycle based on his perception of the ecology issue rather than on a quantitative analysis of issue salience. This article uses changes in U.S. federal government organizations as an indicator of policy activity…
Shaping Policy through the Courts
This is the second of a pair of articles on the role of the courts in shaping British public policy. The first article, in the previous issue of this journal, dealt with the British courts. This article examines how British public policy is shaped by two quite distinct systems of law and courts; first, the European Convention on Human Rights, and, second, the European Communities and the work of the European Court of Justice
Shaping Policy Through the Courts
This article centrally argues that the courts in Britain play a role in laying down general rules which is, on occasion, equivalent to the role of Parliament and the legislative process. The next issue will carry a companion piece by Brian Hogwood on the courts and the EEC and the European Convention on Human Rights
The Death of Immortality
Kaufman's research on the "immortality" of public organizations has led us to believe that the population of organizations in government is very stable. The research reported here finds Kaufman's work to have some serious flaws. With a different data base and different methodology, the findings are that there was a great deal of change in the U.S. federal government in the period of 1933 to 1983
Developments in Regulatory Agencies in Britain
A reform beyond compare? The next steps restructuring of British central government
This article sets out a series of conditions for the successful transfer of an organizational or policy initiative from one country to another. It then assesses whether recent developments in the organization of British central government provide a model for transfer to other European countries which have also been concerned with a separation between policy‐making functions and execution through service delivery agencies. The article concludes by…
Regional administration in Britain since 1979
Public Policy
Public policy is not simply a subset of public administration, but draws on and contributes to a number of aspects of public administration, political science and other disciplines. This article traces the growth of interest in a policy focus in Britain during the 1970s and early 1980s, and its subsequent partial displacement by the emphasis on public management. Despite this partial displacement, the policy focus is now institutionalized in acad…
Whitehall Families
The 'Growth' of Quangos
Journal Article The 'Growth' of Quangos: Evidence and Explanations Get access BRIAN W. HOGWOOD BRIAN W. HOGWOOD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 207–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052527 Published: 01 April 1995
The Machinery of Government, 1979–97
The ‘Pondlife’ of Executive Agencies
Agencies attract the attention of MPs unequally. In focusing upon ‘informnatory responsibility’, as a prerequisite of ministerial responsibility in an era of executive agencies, the article reveals that there is no simple model or pattern of informatory responsibility, whether measured by parliamentary questions, letters from MPs, or extent of contact between ministers and agencies. Those agencies which attract the sustained interest of MPs often…
Towards a New Structure of Public Employment in Britain
English This article analyses trends in public employment in Britain since the I970s, comparing them with the postwar pattern of trends up to that period. The most striking development has been the dramatic decline in public employment in ‘industrial’ activities through the reduction of staff in existing industries and, since 1979, the continuing privatisation or contracting out of industrial activities. Decline elsewhere has been less dramatic a…
Problems of applying a programme approach to intergovernmental policy delivery
One set of problems facing anyone trying to track public expenditure programmes is how to handle the intergovernmental aspects. This can be illustrated by Rose and Davies's study of public expenditure in Britain. Amongst these problems are changes to the system of grants from central government to local authorities and transfers of functions between local and central government. There are also problems in the consistency with which Rose and Davie…
Testing times
This article examines the responses of ministers facing high levels of blame in the press after serious failures in the public exam system for school‐leavers in Scotland in 2000 and England in 2002. It develops a method for systematic analysis and comparison of the behaviour of officeholders facing blame, tests the hypothesis that ministers will accept personal culpability only after other ways of handling blame have been exhausted and uses time …
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