Christopher Hood, Maia King, Iain Mclean, Barbara Maria Piotrowska

The Way the Money Goes

The Fiscal Constitution and Public Spending in the UK

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Produktbeschreibung

The Way the Money Goes traces out what happened to the UK's fiscal constitution - the framework for planning and controlling public spending - under three different governments (Conservative, Labour, Conservative/Liberal Democrat) from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 165mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780198865087
• ISBN-10: 0198865082
• Artikelnr.: 69192349

Autorenporträt

Christopher Hood has taught public administration on three continents over four decades. He has authored, co-authored or edited 27 books and won five awards for research including the American Political Science Association's John Gaus Award in 2021, the UK Political Studies Association's Mackenzie book prize, the H. George Frederickson award from the Public Management Research Association and an honorary doctorate from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Maia King is a Lecturer in Economics at King's College London. Her research explores the political economy of institutions and foreign aid, public finance and economic policymaking, and social and economic networks. Prior to joining KCL, she was a researcher at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. She received her PhD in economics from Queen Mary, University of London. Maia is a former HM Treasury official, and previously worked in Madagascar and Liberia as an ODI Fellow. Iain McLean has worked on UK public policy since his time as an elected member of Tyne & Wear County Council (1973-9). Most recently, he was a Commissioner of the Fiscal Commission for Northern Ireland. He has held posts at Newcastle, Oxford and Warwick universities and visiting posts at various US universities including Stanford and Yale. Other academic interests include Enlightenment (Scottish, American, and French) political thought, and political applications of public choice and social choice theory. Barbara Maria Piotrowska is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College London (KCL). Her work focuses on the role that ideology plays in motivating civil servants and public sector workers, with a particular focus on government and regime changes. Prior to joining KCL, she worked as a researcher at the Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford) and taught at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. Barbara received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester (NY, USA).

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I. Public Spending Control and the UK's Fiscal Constitution
* 1: Introduction
* 2: Dogs That Didn't Bark: Seven Continuing Features of the Fiscal
Constitution
* Part II. UK Public Spending Control under Three Governments,
1992-2015
* 3: Fear, Shock, and Spending Control under the Major Government,
1992-1997
* 4: Public Spending by Other Means? New Labour, New Labels, 1997-2010
* 5: Austerity, Coalition, and Public Spending Control under the
Cameron-Clegg Government, 2010-2015
* Part III. Five Aspects of Public Spending Control
* 6: Hunting an Elephant with a Pea-Shooter: Power Politics and
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Investment and Infrastructure Spending
* 7: Devolved Administrations and Local Government: Little Moral Hazard
but Little True Autonomy
* 8: Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie: Administration Costs and the Tenacity
of Input Controls
* 9: Yesterday's Tomorrows: Forecasts and Outturns in Public Spending,
1993-2015
* 10: The People, the Rules, and the Numbers
* Part IV. UK Public Spending Control in Perspective
* 11: As Others Saw It: Rating and Comparing UK Public Spending Control
* 12: Conclusion and Epilogue: The Fiscal Constitution, Then, Now, and
to Come