U.S. Inspectors General - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook U.S. Inspectors General write by Charles A. Johnson. This book was released on 2019-12-03. U.S. Inspectors General available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title How officials reporting to both executive officials and congressional representatives work to keep the government honest, efficient, and effective. Inspectors general are important players in the federal government, and their work often draws considerable public attention when one of them uncovers serious misdeeds or mismanagement that make the headlines. This book by two experts in public policy provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of how inspectors general have operated in the four decades since Congress established the offices to investigate waste, fraud, and mismanagement at federal agencies and to promote efficiency and effectiveness in government programs. Unique among federal officials, inspectors general are independent of the agencies they monitor, and they report to the executive and legislative branches of government. One key factor in their independence is that they are expected to be non-partisan and carry out their work without regard to partisan interests. The authors of U.S. Inspectors General: Truth Tellers in Turbulent Times emphasize the “strategic environment” in which inspectors general work and interact with a variety of stakeholders, inside and outside the government. Their new book is based on in-depth case studies, a survey of inspectors general, and a review of public documents related to the work of inspectors general. It will be of interest to scholars and students of public policy and public management, journalists, and ordinary citizens interested in how the government works—or doesn’t work—on their behalf.
The Accountability State
The Accountability State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Accountability State write by Nadia Hilliard. This book was released on 2017-04-17. The Accountability State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Public accountability is critical to a democracy. But as government becomes ever more complex, with bureaucracy growing ever deeper and wider, how can these multiplying numbers of unelected bureaucrats be held accountable? The answer, more often than not, comes in the form of inspectors general, monitors largely independent of the management of the agencies to which they are attached. How, and whether, this system works in America is what Nadia Hilliard investigates in The Accountability State. Exploring the significance of our current collective obsession with accountability, her book helpfully shifts the issue from the technical domain of public administration to the context of American political development. Inspectors general, though longtime fixtures of government and the military, first came into prominence in the United States in the 1970s in the wake of evidence of wrongdoing in the Nixon administration. Their number and importance has only increased in tandem with concerns about abuses of power and simple inefficiency in expanding government agencies. Some of the IGs Hilliard examines serve agencies chiefly vulnerable to fraud and waste, while others, such as national security IGs, monitor the management of potentially rights-threatening activities. By some conventional measures, IGs are largely successful, whether in savings, prosecutions, suspensions, disbarments, or exposure of legally or ethically questionable activities. However, her work reveals that these measures fail to do justice to the range of effects that IGs can have on American democracy, and offers a new framework with which to evaluate and understand them. Within her larger study, Hilliard looks specifically at inspectors general in the US Departments of Justice, State, and Homeland Security and asks why their effectiveness varies as much as it does, with the IGs at Justice and Homeland Security proving far more successful than the IG at State.
Monitoring Government
Monitoring Government - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monitoring Government write by Paul Charles Light. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Monitoring Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers the first systematic evaluation of the offices of inspector general (OIG) and examines the government-wide investment in the OIGs concept. Despite their increasingly prominent, often controversial, role in the internal oversight of government, very little is known about their institutional or operational problems.
The Journal of Public Inquiry
The Journal of Public Inquiry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Journal of Public Inquiry write by . This book was released on 1998. The Journal of Public Inquiry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Inspector General Reform Act of 2008
Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 write by United States. This book was released on 2008. Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
