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Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability »
Authors: Paul Charles Light
ISBN-13: 9780815752554, ISBN-10: 0815752555
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Date Published: January 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Paul Charles Light
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Why Study IGs? | 2 | |
| Methods of Inquiry | 4 | |
| Plan of the Book | 5 | |
| Pt. 1 | Frameworks | |
| 1 | The Newest Monitors | 11 |
| Paths to Accountability | 12 | |
| Monitoring toward Accountability | 16 | |
| Conclusion: An Era of Limits | 21 | |
| 2 | The Rise of the IG Concept | 23 |
| An Introduction to the IG Act | 23 | |
| A Brief History | 25 | |
| A Statutory Prototype | 28 | |
| A Nonstatutory Alternative | 31 | |
| Conclusion: A Barbed Wire Fence | 35 | |
| Pt. 2 | Designing the Concept | |
| 3 | Why Congress Acted | 39 |
| The Three Horsemen of the IG Concept | 39 | |
| The Politics of Fraud Busting | 43 | |
| The Information Imperative | 48 | |
| Conclusion: The Choice of Compliance | 57 | |
| 4 | Creating a Strong Right Arm | 58 |
| What Might Have Been | 59 | |
| The IG Job Description | 61 | |
| Institutionalized Ambivalence | 68 | |
| Pt. 3 | Implementing the Act | |
| 5 | The Class of 1979 | 81 |
| Carter's Choices | 82 | |
| An Abbreviated Term | 90 | |
| Conclusion: Too Much to Do, Too Little Time | 100 | |
| 6 | Glory Days | 102 |
| Fear of Firing | 103 | |
| Getting Started ... Again | 104 | |
| The Seeds of Alliance | 111 | |
| Conclusion: A Match Made in Heaven? | 118 | |
| 7 | Backlash | 121 |
| The Class of 1985 | 121 | |
| Fine-Tuning | 128 | |
| Into the Bush Years | 131 | |
| Conclusion: Uncertain Futures | 145 | |
| Pt. 4 | Organizing for Accountability | |
| 8 | A Drift toward Investigation | 149 |
| Auditors and Investigators | 150 | |
| The Investigatory Impulse | 160 | |
| Conclusion: Protecting IGs | 169 | |
| 9 | The Organizational IGs | 175 |
| An Organizational History of the OIGs | 177 | |
| The Organizational Future | 189 | |
| The IGs as Institutional Memory | 200 | |
| Pt. 5 | Questions of Effectiveness | |
| 10 | Measuring the Impact of IGs | 203 |
| Measures of Effectiveness | 204 | |
| Conclusion: Questions of Performance | 220 | |
| 11 | The Future of the IG Concept | 224 |
| The IG Act Innovations | 225 | |
| A Reprise on Reform | 229 | |
| A Safe Harbor for Analysis | 234 | |
| Appendix: Interview Contacts | 236 | |
| Notes | 241 | |
| Index | 265 |
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