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2023

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D-Index
67
Citations
46852
World Ranking
65
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2007 - H. George Frederickson Award, Public Management Research Association
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration
  • Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration

Overview

Christopher Hood was affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned the intersection of social sciences and medicine, with a focus on political science, economics, radiology, ophthalmology, and mechanical engineering. Their work contributed primarily to topics such as local government finance and decentralization, fiscal policies and political economy, corneal surgery and disorders, glaucoma and retinal disorders, fiscal policy and economic growth, herpesvirus infections and treatments, and healthcare and venom research.

The scientist published several papers, including:

  • Goodhart's Law and the Gaming of UK Public Spending Numbers (2020) in Public Performance & Management Review
  • Who loves input controls? What happened to "outputs not inputs" in UK Public Financial Management, and why? (2021) in Public Administration
  • The 2021 John Gaus Award Lecture: Public Administration and the War Against COVID (2022) in PS Political Science & Politics

Christopher Hood was a coauthor frequently collaborating with Keith H. Baratz, Sanjay V. Patel, Ahmed F. Omar, Barbara Maria Piotrowska, and Jonathan H. Lass. Their publications appeared across multiple venues, most commonly in JAMA Ophthalmology, followed by Public Performance & Management Review, Public Administration, PS Political Science & Politics, and Materials Performance and Characterization.

In the areas of study, their work covered:

  • Medicine
  • Social Sciences

The subfields related to their research included:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Ophthalmology
  • Mechanical Engineering

Main topics addressed in their publications included:

  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Corneal surgery and disorders
  • Glaucoma and retinal disorders
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
  • Healthcare and Venom Research

Christopher Hood was recognized with awards including the H. George Frederickson Award from the Public Management Research Association in 2007 and was named a Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration. The scientist is now deceased.

Best Publications

  • A PUBLIC MANAGEMENT FOR ALL SEASONS

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  • The “new public management” in the 1980s: Variations on a theme

    Christopher Hood

  • From old public administration to new public management

    Patrick Dunleavy;Christopher Hood

  • What's measured is what matters: targets and gaming in the English public health care system

    Gwyn Bevan;Christopher Hood

  • The tools of government in the digital age

    Christopher C. Hood;Helen Z. Margetts

  • The government of risk: understanding risk regulation regimes

    Christopher C. Hood;Henry Rothstein;Robert Baldwin

  • The Middle Aging of New Public Management: Into the Age of Paradox?

    Christopher Hood;Guy Peters

  • The Tools of Government

    Christopher C. Hood

  • Regulation Inside Government: Waste-Watchers, Quality Police, and Sleaze-Busters

    Christopher Hood;Oliver James;Colin Scott;George W. Jones

  • The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management

    Christopher C. Hood

  • Transparency: the Key to Better Governance?

    Christopher C. Hood;David Heald

  • The Risk Game and the Blame Game

    Christopher Hood

  • The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government

    Christopher C. Hood

  • The Politics of Public Service Bargains: Reward, Competency, Loyalty - and Blame

    Christopher C. Hood;Martin Lodge

  • What happens when transparency meets blame-avoidance?

    Christopher Hood

  • Contemporary public management: a new global paradigm?:

    Christopher Hood

  • Gaming in Targetworld: The Targets Approach to Managing British Public Services

    Hood Christopher;Christopher Hood

  • A reader on regulation

    Robert Baldwin;Colin Scott;Christopher C. Hood

  • Intellectual Obsolescence and Intellectual Makeovers: Reflections on the Tools of Government after Two Decades

    Christopher Hood

  • Controlling Modern Government: Variety, Commonality And Change

    Christopher Hood;Oliver James;B. Guy Peters;Colin Scott

  • Paradoxes of public-sector managerialism, old public management and public service bargains

    Christopher Hood

  • The government of risk

    Christopher Hood;Henry Rothstein;Robert Baldwin

  • Accountability and Transparency: Siamese Twins, Matching Parts, Awkward Couple?

    Christopher Hood

  • Regulation Inside Government

    Christopher Hood;Oliver James;George Jones;Colin Scott

  • The Tools of Government in the Digital Age: Second Edition (Public Policy and Politics)

    Christopher C. Hood;Helen Z. Margetts

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Baldwin
Robert Baldwin London School of Economics and Political Science
Martin Lodge
Martin Lodge London School of Economics and Political Science
Colin Scott
Colin Scott University College Dublin
Oliver James
Oliver James University of Exeter
Helen Margetts
Helen Margetts University of Oxford
B. Guy Peters
B. Guy Peters University of Pittsburgh
Michael Power
Michael Power London School of Economics and Political Science
Will Jennings
Will Jennings University of Southampton
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson Harvard University
George Alexander Boyne
George Alexander Boyne University of Aberdeen

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