Christopher Hood

Christopher Hood
Christopher Hood (January 1990)
Born
Christopher Cropper Hood

1947 (age 76–77)
AwardsW. J. M. Mackenzie Prize (1998 and 2016)
Louis Brownlow Book Award (2015)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of York
University of Glasgow
Academic work
InstitutionsLondon School of Economics
All Souls College, Oxford
Main interestsExecutive government
New public management
Websitewww.christopherhood.net

Christopher Cropper Hood CBE FBA (born 1947) is a visiting professor of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, and an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.[1] Hood was Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford, from 2001 to 2014, and director of the ESRC Research Programme Public Services: Quality, Performance and Delivery from 2004 to 2010. His books include The Limits of Administration (1976), The Tools of Government (1983) (updated as The Tools of Government in the Digital Age (2007) with Helen Margetts), The Art of the State (1998 and 2000) and A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? (2015, with Ruth Dixon). He chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' Working Party on medical profiling and online medicine from 2008 to 2010.[2]

He specialises in the study of executive government, regulation and public-sector reform and has written on New Public Management.[3]

  1. ^ "Professor Christopher Hood". People. All Souls College, Oxford. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  2. ^ "Membership of the Working Party". Medical profiling and online medicine. Nuffield Council on Bioethics. October 2010. Archived from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  3. ^ Hood, Christopher; Guy Peters (2004). "The Middle Aging of New Public Management: Into the Age of Paradox?". Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 14 (3): 267–282. doi:10.1093/jopart/muh019.