Hood, Christopher


Professor Christopher Hood  

Department

Position held

Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)

CARR Programme Director, Regulation of Government and Governance

Experience keywords:

reform; risk regulation; safety regulation; public administration; administrative reform; management

Languages:

French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Intermediate]; German [Spoken: Basic, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7203

Publications

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2012

Hood, Christopher and Dixon, Ruth (2012) The current government is aiming for cuts to administration costs that have never previously been achieved. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

2011

Hood, Christopher and Lodge, Martin (2011) Appearing in front of a Select Committee: does this prove that we had an impact or were we a convenient political cover for positions already taken? Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Lodge, Martin and Hood, Christopher (2011) Into an age of multiple austerities?: public management and public service bargains across OECD countries. Governance, 25 (1). pp. 79-101. ISSN 0952-1895

2010

Lodge, Martin and Hood, Christopher (2010) Regulation inside government: retro-theory vindicated or outdated? In: Baldwin, Robert and Cave, Martin and Lodge, Martin, (eds.) The Oxford handbook of regulation. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199560219

2007

Hood, Christopher and Jennings, Will and Hogwood, Brian and Beeston, Craig (2007) Fighting fires in testing times: exploring a staged response hypothesis for blame management in two exam fiasco cases. CARR Discussion Papers, DP 42. Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

2006

Hood, Christopher (2006) Transparency in historical perspective. In: Hood, Christopher and Heald, David, (eds.) Transparency: the key to better governance?. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 3-23. ISBN 9780197263839

Hood, Christopher (2006) Beyond exchanging first principles? Some closing comments. In: Hood, Christopher and Heald, David, (eds.) Transparency: the key to better governance?. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 211-225. ISBN 9780197263839

Hood, Christopher and Heald, David, (eds.) (2006) Transparency: the key to better governance? Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780197263839

Hood, Christopher and Lodge, Martin (2006) From Sir Humphrey to Sir Nigel: what future for the public service bargain after Blairworld? Political quarterly, 77 (3). pp. 360-368. ISSN 0032-3179

Hood, Christopher and Lodge, Martin (2006) The politics of public service bargains: reward, competency, loyalty - and blame. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199269679

Bevan, Gwyn and Hood, Christopher (2006) Have targets improved performance in the English NHS? British medical journal, 332 (7538). pp. 419-422. ISSN 0959-8138

Bevan, Gwyn and Hood, Christopher (2006) What's measured is what matters: targets and gaming in the English public health care system. Public administration, 84 (3). pp. 517-538. ISSN 0033-3298

2005

Lodge, Martin and Page, Edward C. and Hood, Christopher (2005) Conclusion: is competency management a passing fad? Public administration, 83 (4). pp. 853-860. ISSN 0033-3298

Hood, Christopher and Lodge, Martin (2005) Aesop with variations: civil service competency as a case of German tortoise and British hare? Public administration, 83 (4). pp. 805-822. ISSN 0033-3298

Hood, Christopher and Lodge, Martin (2005) Pavlovian innovation, pet solutions and economizing on rationality?: politicians and dangerous dogs. In: Black, Julia and Lodge, Martin and Thatcher, Mark, (eds.) Regulatory innovation: a comparative analysis. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781845422844

2004

Hood, Christopher and James, Oliver and Peters, B. Guy and Scott, Colin (2004) Controlling modern government: variety, commonality and change. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK. ISBN 9781843766292

Hood, Christopher and Lodge, Martin (2004) Competency, bureaucracy and public management reform: a comparative analysis. Governance, 17 (3). pp. 313-333. ISSN 0952-1895

Bevan, Gwyn and Hood, Christopher (2004) Targets, inspections, and transparency. British medical journal, 328 (7440). ISSN 0959-8138

Bevan, Gwyn and Hood, Christopher (2004) Targets, inspections and transparency. British medical journal, 328 (7440). pp. 598-598. ISSN 0959-8138

2003

Lodge, Martin and Hood, Christopher (2003) Competency and bureaucracy: diffusion, application and appropriate response? West European politics, 26 (3). pp. 131-152. ISSN 0140-2382

Hood, Christopher (2003) Tsar-tsar galore. Times higher education supplement, ISSN 0049-3929

2002

Hood, Christopher and Peters, B. Guy (2002) The top pay game and good governance - where immodest theories meet slippery facts. In: Hood, Christopher and Peters, B. Guy and Lee, Grace, (eds.) Reward for high public office: Asian and Pacific Rim states. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 165-181. ISBN 9780415303491

Hood, Christopher and Askim, Jostein (2002) Alike at the summit? In: Hood, Christopher and Peters, B. Guy and Lee, Grace, (eds.) Reward for high public office: Asian and Pacific Rim states. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 22-46. ISBN 9780415303491

Hood, Christopher and Peters, B. Guy and Lee, Grace (2002) Introduction. In: Hood, Christopher and Peters, B. Guy and Lee, Grace, (eds.) Reward for high public office: Asian and Pacific Rim states. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 3-21. ISBN 9780415303491

Hood, Christopher and Peters, B. Guy and Lee, Grace, (eds.) (2002) Reward for high public office: Asian and Pacific Rim states. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415303491

Hood, Christopher (2002) Managing risk and managing blame: a political science perspective. In: Weale, Albert, (ed.) Risk, democratic citizenship and public policy. Oxford University Press/British Academy, Oxford, UK, pp. 73-84. ISBN 9780197262832

Hood, Christopher (2002) Control, bargains, and cheating: the politics of public service reform. Journal of public administration research and theory, 12 (3). pp. 309-332. ISSN 1053-1858

Lodge, Martin and Hood, Christopher (2002) Pavlovian policy responses to media feeding frenzies? Dangerous dogs regulation in comparative perspective. Journal of contingencies and crisis management, 10 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 1468-5973

Hood, Christopher (2002) The risk game and the blame game. Government and opposition, 37 (1). pp. 15-37. ISSN 0017-257X

2001

Hood, Christopher and Rothstein, Henry and Baldwin, Robert (2001) The government of risk: understanding risk regulation regimes. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199243631

Hood, Christopher (2001) Public service managerialism: onwards and upwards, or "Trobriand cricket" again? The political quarterly, 72 (3). pp. 300-309. ISSN 0032-3179

Hood, Christopher (2001) Public service bargains and public service reform. In: Peters, B. Guy and Pierre, Jon, (eds.) Politicians, bureaucrats and administrative reform. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 13-23. ISBN 9780415234436

Hood, Christopher and Rothstein, Henry (2001) Risk regulation under pressure: problem solving or blame shifting? Administration & society, 33 (1). pp. 21-53. ISSN 1552-3039

2000

Baldwin, Robert and Hood, Christopher and Rothstein, Henry and Hutter, Bridget M. and Power, Michael (2000) Business risk management in government: pitfalls and possibilities. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Baldwin, Robert and Hood, Christopher and Rothstein, Henry and Hutter, Bridget M. and Power, Michael (2000) Risk management and business regulation. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Baldwin, Robert and Hood, Christopher and Rothstein, Henry and Hutter, Bridget M. and Power, Michael (2000) Is regulation right? London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Hood, Christopher (2000) Relations between ministers/politicians and public servants: public service bargains old and new. In: Peters, B. Guy and Savoie, Donald J., (eds.) Governance in the twenty-first century: revitalizing the public service. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, Canada, pp. 178-208. ISBN 9780773521292

Scott, Colin and Hood, Christopher and James, Oliver and Jones, George W. and Travers, Tony (2000) Bureaucratic gamekeeping: regulation of UK public administration 1976-96. In: Rhodes, R. A. W., (ed.) Transforming British government. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK, pp. 80-96. ISBN 9780333752418

Hood, Christopher and James, Oliver and Scott, Colin (2000) Regulation of government: has it increased, is it increasing, should it be diminished? Public administration, 78 (2). pp. 283-304. ISSN 0033-3298

Hood, Christopher (2000) Paradoxes of public-sector managerialism, old public management and public service bargains. International public management journal, 3 (1). pp. 1-22. ISSN 1096-7494

Baldwin, Robert and Hood, Christopher and Rothstein, Henry (2000) Assessing the Dangerous Dogs Act: when does a regulatory law fail? Public law, (Summer). pp. 282-305. ISSN 0033-3565

1999

Hall, Clare and Scott, Colin and Hood, Christopher (1999) Telecommunications regulation: culture, chaos and interdependence inside the regulatory process. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415199490

Hood, Christopher and Rothstein, Henry and Baldwin, Robert and Rees, Judith and Spackman, Michael (1999) Where risk society meets the regulatory state: exploring variations in risk regulation regimes. Risk management, 1 (1). pp. 21-34. ISSN 1460-3799

Hood, Christopher and Rothstein, Henry and Spackman, Michael and Rees, Judith and Baldwin, Robert (1999) Explaining risk regulation regimes: exploring the 'minimal feasible response' hypothesis. Health, risk & society, 1 (2). pp. 151-166. ISSN 1369-8575

Hood, Christopher and Rothstein, H. (1999) Institutions and risk management: problem solvers or blame-shifters. In: Hubert, P. and Mays, C., (eds.) Risk analysis: opening the process. Institut de Protection et de Surete Nucleaire, Paris, France, pp. 13-22.

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