MONITORING GOVERNMENT INSPECTORS GENERAL AND THE SEARCH FOR ACCOUNTABLITYPDF电子书下载

Introduction 1

Why Study IGs? 2

Methods of Inquiry 4

Plan of the Book 5

PART I. Frameworks 9

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

PART 2. Designing the Concept 37

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

PART 3. Implementing the Act 79

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

PART 4. Organizing for Accountability 147

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

PART 5. Questions of Effectiveness 201

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