Professor Christopher Hood FBA is Gladstone Professor of Government at Oxford University, and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is director of the ESRC Research Programme Public Services: Quality, Performance and Delivery. 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) and The Art of the State (1998 and 2000). He specializes in the study of executive government, regulation and public-sector reform and has written on New Public Management (for example: [1]).
