Recent or Current Publications Available Online

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(a) books

For a list of Christopher Hood's books available from Oxford University Press as e-books see http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/ public/content/subject_index/politicalscience/authors_ho-hr.html

• (lead author, with Helen Margetts) The Tools of Government in the Digital Age, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 Chapter 1 available as PDF

• (lead editor, with David Heald) Transparency: The Key to Better Government? Oxford, British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2006 (not yet available online). Reviews available here

• (with Martin Lodge) The Politics of Public Service Bargains: Reward, Competency, Loyalty – and Blame (OUP 2006)
  
• (with Henry Rothstein and Robert Baldwin) The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes (OUP 2001 and paperback 2004)
  
• (with Oliver James and others) Regulation inside Government: Waste-Watchers, Quality Police and Sleaze-Busters (OUP 1999)
  
• The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric and Public Management (OUP 1998 and paperback 2000)
  

(b) podcasts, videos, press reports and other material

• Christopher Hood was interviewed by BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour on 13 June 2010 on previous periods of public spending cutbacks. He was also interviewed on BBC Radio Wales on the same subject on 24 May (audio no longer available).
• A video interview with Christopher Hood and Trudie Roberts for the GMC conference in February 2010 on the joint PSP GMC projects may be viewed on the GMC website. (Scroll down to end of page)
• On 5 February 2010 Christopher Hood gave a lecture in the prestigious Darwin College Lecture Series. His lecture, entitled Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance may be viewed as a video here.
• On 4 February 2010 Christopher Hood spoke at the Guardian Public Services Summit. His lecture was entitled Resistance to change in public services. His contribution was discussed in a report of the event by Janet Dudman in the Guardian.
• CD produced for the End-of-Programme Conference "Public Services in the 2010s: Prosperity, Austerity and Recovery", held on 11 December 2009. Contains an archive of Public Services Programme material and a poster from each Programme project.
• December 2009. Interview. Public Services Programme administrator Gail Savage interviews Programme Director Christopher Hood and Deputy Director, Deborah Wilson. The achievements of the Programme over its five-year lifespan are highlighted. Interview duration about 17 min
  Video version (MPEG-4) 149 MB - may take several minutes to download
  Audio version (MP3) 15 MB
• Christopher Hood and Labour MP Denis MacShane discuss how Downing Street can deal with budget restraints. Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 10 September 2009, 7.38 am
• Treasury learns ways to make deep cuts Article in the Financial Times, September 2009
• Bergen was the venue for the first World Social Science Forum, in May 2009, arranged by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and attended by nearly 800 delegates. Twenty-four parallel sessions tackled contemporary issues in the social sciences. The keynote address 'Challenges for the Social Sciences in the New Century' was given by Amartya Sen. Recordings of all of the presentations can be found on the ISSC website. Christopher Hood's presentation is available in Session S4, Sunday May 10 Rankings and Reactions: The Comparative Politics of International Rankings. His talk starts about 5 minutes after the start of the audio file. His PowerPoint presentation can be found on the same page. He highlights three puzzles relating to the supply and demand of international governance rankings, such as why demand for such rankings seems to be growing when all the social science research tends to emphasize their limitations as a summative tool. Christopher Hood also presented posters on the programme's work on rankings (pdf) and one on a comparative analysis of press responses to the PISA educational study in the UK, France and Germany (pdf) .
• April 2009: Christopher Hood is interviewed by Sky-News about the consultation from the Working Party on Personalised Medicine from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. [video no longer available]
• BBC Report on the Working Party on Personalised Medicine from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
• The Uses of Measured Performance Indicators in Governance and Public Services accessed via the Public Service Programme website. Christopher Hood discusses the functions and dysfunctions of various types of measured performance indicators in this video interview. August 2008
• Public Administration Select Committee on Machinery of Government Changes Extracts from the hearing (26 Mb) April 2007 Written Report
• News item on target setting (13 Mb) Extract (3 Mb) More 4 News July 2007
• Public Service PerformanceThe Centre for Market and Public Organization Public Service Reform Interviews (podcast) March 2006

(c) papers and articles

• (with Ruth Dixon and Deborah Wilson) Keeping Up the Standards? School Leadership Today March 2010 PDF
• (with Ruth Dixon and Deborah Wilson) Managing by Numbers: the Way to Make Public Services Better? Policy Briefing, November 2009 PDF
• Christopher Hood, Will Jennings, Ruth Dixon, Brian Hogwood and Craig Beeston Testing times: Exploring staged responses and the impact of blame management strategies in two examination fiasco cases European Journal of Political Research 48 2009 695-722 PDF
• (with Carl Emmerson and Ruth Dixon) Public Spending in Hard Times Policy Briefing presented to the Institute for Government, June 2009 PDF
• (with Peter Miller) Public Service Risks: What's Distinctive and New? Risk and Public Services. PDF
• (Lead author, with Ruth Dixon and Craig Beeston) Rating the Rankings: Assessing International Rankings of Public Service Performance. International Public Management Journal 11(3) 2008 298-328 Link to Informaworld
• (Second author, with Ruth Dixon and Lawrence Jones) Ratings and Rankings of Public Service Performance. Special Issue Introduction International Public Management Journal 11(3) 2008 253-255 Link to Informaworld
• (Lead author, with Will Jennings, Brian Hogwood and Craig Beeston) Fighting Fires in Testing Times: Exploring a Staged Response Hypothesis for Blame Management in Two Exam Fiasco Cases CARR Discussion Paper 42 July 2007 PDF
• What happens when transparency meets blame-avoidance? Public Management Review 9(2) 2007 191-210, Link to Informaworld
• Themed issue of Public Money and Management April 2007 Public Service Management by Numbers: Why Does it Vary? Where Has it Come From? What Are the Gaps and the Puzzles? Public Money and Management 27(2) 2007 95-102, link to Wiley InterScience and (with Andrew Gray) Editorial: Public Management by Numbers Public Money and Management 27(2) 2007 89.
• Book Review of The Politics of Evaluation: Participation and Policy Implementation by Taylor, D. and Balloch, S. The British Journal of Sociology 58(1) 2007 156-157. PDF
• (first author, with Martin Lodge) Civil Service reform syndrome - are we heading for a cure? Transformation 5 2007 58-59. PDF
• The Numbers Game Ethos Magazine July 2007 PDF (15 Mb)
• Gaming in Targetworld: The Targets Approach to Managing British Public Services Public Administration Review 66 (4), July/August 2006 515-521 (for readers from Oxford University it can be accessed via Oxford e-journals).
• (second author, with Gwyn Bevan) What’s Measured is What Matters: Targets and Gaming in Healthcare in England, Public Administration 84 (3) 2006 517-538 (for readers from Oxford University it can be accessed via Oxford e-journals). An earlier version can be found as a discussion paper on the ESRC Public Services programme website at http://www.publicservices.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/dp0501.pdf
• (second author, with Gwyn Bevan) Have Targets Improved Performance in the English NHS? British Medical Journal 2006 (18 February) BMJ 2006;332 419-422 (available from http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/332/7538/419?etoc)
• (first author, with Martin Lodge) Aesop with Variations: Civil Service Competency as a Case of German Tortoise and British Hare? Public Administration 83 (4) 2005 (for readers from Oxford University it can be accessed via Oxford e-journals).

• (with Martin Lodge) Competency, Bureaucracy And Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis in Governance (Vol 17 (3), July 2004), (for readers from Oxford University it can be accessed via Oxford e-journals).
• (with B. Guy Peters) The Middle Aging of New Public Management: Into the Age of Paradox? Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory14 (3) 2004. Abstract .PDF
• My entry on New Public Management in The Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier 2002.
• My article The Risk Game and the Blame Game in Government and Opposition (Vol 37 (1) 2002), (for readers from Oxford university it can be accessed via Oxford e-journals).
• My 2002 report with Martin Lodge and Chris Clifford on civil service competency which is available online via LSE.
• My article with Martin Lodge Competency and Bureaucracy: Diffusion, Application and Appropriate Response in West European Politics (Vol 26 (3) 2003), (for readers from Oxford University it can be accessed via Oxford e-journals).