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This book offers the most comprehensive consideration of accountability in both government and the contemporary world of governance currently available. Twenty-five leading experts cover varying aspects of the accountability movement and apply them to governments, quasi governments, non-government organizations, governance organizations, and voluntary organizations.

Government accountability. --- Government accountability --- Public administration

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Educational accountability --- -Accountability in education --- Responsibility --- Educational indicators --- Educational productivity --- -Educational accountability --- Teaching

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The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance shapes the workings of government and public services. Arguing that the blaming phenomenon is not all bad, Hood demonstrates that it can actually help to pin down responsibility, and he examines different kinds of blame avoidance, both positive and negative. Hood traces how the main forms of blame avoidance manifest themselves in presentational and "spin" activity, the architecture of organizations, and the shaping of standard operating routines. He analyzes the scope and limits of blame avoidance, and he considers how it plays out in old and new areas, such as those offered by the digital age of websites and e-mail. Hood assesses the effects of this behavior, from high-level problems of democratic accountability trails going cold to the frustrations of dealing with organizations whose procedures seem to ensure that no one is responsible for anything. Delving into the inner workings of complex institutions, The Blame Game proves how a better understanding of blame avoidance can improve the quality of modern governance, management, and organizational design.

Sociology of organization --- Political sociology --- Government accountability --- Blame --- Political aspects --- Accountability in government --- Public administration --- Responsibility --- Criticism, Personal --- Blame - Political aspects --- Government accountability. --- Political aspects.

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European law --- Effectiveness and validity of law --- Government accountability. --- Government accountability --- Law enforcement. --- Judicial process --- Law enforcement --- European Union countries.

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Evaluation, whether in schools and colleges, LEAs or TECs is now universally recognised as an essential part of any effective educational and training system. There are, however, two major problems in its implementation: lack of time and a perceived lack among middle and senior managers of the special skills necessary for an evaluation to have external validity. This book provides a solution to both problems. It offers evaluation processes which accept time limitations and work within them an it strips away the mystique of evaluation to describe methods and procedures which will enable edu

Education. --- Educational accountability--Great Britain. --- Education--Great Britain--Evaluation. --- Great Britain. --- Didactic evaluation --- Education --- Educational accountability --- Evaluation.