Nominations of Richard L. Skinner and Brian D. Miller
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
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ISBN : 1422333507
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
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ISBN : 1422333507
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
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Author : Nadia Hilliard
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0700623981
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.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Law
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 2006
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Constitutional law
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Page : 672 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Government publications
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Author : United States. Congress
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Page : 802 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2009
Category : United States
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Author : United States. Congress
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Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Law
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Page : 824 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Patents
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