Monitoring Government
Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability
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268 pages
978-0-8157-1782-9 (ISBN)
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-8157-1782-9 (9780815717829)
DOI
10.5771/9780815717829
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Why Study IGs?
- Methods of Inquiry
- Plan of the Book
- Part 1 Frameworks
- 1. The Newest Monitors
- Paths to Accountability
- Monitoring toward Accountability
- Conclusion: An Era of Limits
- 2. The Rise of the IG Concept
- An Introduction to the IG Act
- A Brief History
- A Statutory Prototype
- A Nonstatutory Alternative
- Conclusion: A Barbed Wire Fence
- Part 2 Designing the Concept
- 3. Why Congress Acted
- The Three Horsemen of the IG Concept
- The Politics of Fraud Busting
- The Information Imperative
- Conclusion: The Choice of Compliance
- 4. Creating a Strong Right Arm
- What Might Have Been
- The IG Job Description
- Institutionalized Ambivalence
- Part 3 Implementing the Act
- 5. The Class of 1979
- Carter's Choices
- An Abbreviated Term
- Conclusion: Too Much to Do, Too Little Time
- 6. Glory Days
- Fear of Firing
- Getting Started .. . Again
- The Seeds of Alliance
- Conclusion: A Match Made in Heaven?
- 7. Backlash
- The Class of 1985
- Fine-Tuning
- Into the Bush Years
- Conclusion: Uncertain Futures
- Part 4 Organizing for Accountability
- 8. A Drift toward Investigation
- Auditors and Investigators
- The Investigatory Impulse
- Conclusion: Protecting IGs
- 9. The Organizational IGs
- An Organizational History of the OIGs
- The Organizational Future
- The IGs as Institutional Memory
- Part 5 Questions of Effectiveness
- 10. Measuring the Impact of IGs
- Measures of Effectiveness
- Conclusion: Questions of Performance
- 11. The Future of the IG Concept
- The IG Act Innovations
- A Reprise on Reform
- A Safe Harbor for Analysis
- Appendix: Interview Contacts
- Notes
- Index
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