Abstract
The system for monitoring, regulating and reporting on the way in which UK government ministers make appointments to the boards of public bodies is a relatively neglected area of public management. A decade after the establishment of the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments (OCPA), little attention has been paid by academics to the functioning of this agent of accountability (a particularly British device), despite the importance of transparency and accountability for the new public management and modernization. This article seeks to examine the key issues surrounding the Commissioners for Public Appointments as agents of accountability, by examining the tensions in the relationship between OCPA and the executive, variations in the governance arrangements for the Commissioners across the devolved polity and the key findings and recommendations of a number of official reports, while locating these issues in the context of current debates about modernization and 'representativeness' in public bodies.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Public Management Review |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2007 |
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Keywords
- independence
- accountability
- public appointments
- governance
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Monitoring the public appointments process in the UK. / McTavish, Duncan; Pyper, Robert.
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T1 - Monitoring the public appointments process in the UK
AU - McTavish, Duncan
AU - Pyper, Robert
N1 - Originally published in: Public Management Review (2007), 9 (1), pp.145-153.
PY - 2007/3/1
Y1 - 2007/3/1
N2 - The system for monitoring, regulating and reporting on the way in which UK government ministers make appointments to the boards of public bodies is a relatively neglected area of public management. A decade after the establishment of the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments (OCPA), little attention has been paid by academics to the functioning of this agent of accountability (a particularly British device), despite the importance of transparency and accountability for the new public management and modernization. This article seeks to examine the key issues surrounding the Commissioners for Public Appointments as agents of accountability, by examining the tensions in the relationship between OCPA and the executive, variations in the governance arrangements for the Commissioners across the devolved polity and the key findings and recommendations of a number of official reports, while locating these issues in the context of current debates about modernization and 'representativeness' in public bodies.
AB - The system for monitoring, regulating and reporting on the way in which UK government ministers make appointments to the boards of public bodies is a relatively neglected area of public management. A decade after the establishment of the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments (OCPA), little attention has been paid by academics to the functioning of this agent of accountability (a particularly British device), despite the importance of transparency and accountability for the new public management and modernization. This article seeks to examine the key issues surrounding the Commissioners for Public Appointments as agents of accountability, by examining the tensions in the relationship between OCPA and the executive, variations in the governance arrangements for the Commissioners across the devolved polity and the key findings and recommendations of a number of official reports, while locating these issues in the context of current debates about modernization and 'representativeness' in public bodies.
KW - independence
KW - accountability
KW - public appointments
KW - governance
U2 - 10.1080/14719030601181290
DO - 10.1080/14719030601181290
M3 - Article
JO - Public Management Review
JF - Public Management Review
SN - 1471-9037
ER -