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. -- .
By:
David Hine,
Gillian Peele
Other:
Bethan Hirst
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 699g
ISBN: 9780719097133
ISBN 10: 0719097134
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 25 January 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 -- .
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
