C. Hood et al., REGULATION INSIDE GOVERNMENT - WHERE NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT MEETS THE AUDIT EXPLOSION, Public money & management, 18(2), 1998, pp. 61-68
This article explores the scale and growth of regulation inside UK gov
ernment, defined as standard-setting and monitoring by bodies constitu
ted at arm's-length from those they oversee. It argues regulation insi
de government is comparable in scale to regulation of business and has
grown sharply over two decades, while public organizations in general
have substantially downsized. Regulation inside government is highly
diverse and there is a marked disjunction between the control regimes
applied by regulators of government to those they regulate and the way
the regulators are themselves assessed and controlled.