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SUMMARY:Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance - Profe
 ssor Christopher Hood\, University of Oxford
DTSTART:20100205T173000Z
DTEND:20100205T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Biography\n\nChristopher Hood (www.christopherhood.net)\, who 
 specializes in the study of executive government\, regulation and public-s
 ector reform\, is Gladstone\nProfessor of Government\, Fellow of All Souls
  College Oxford\, and Director of the ESRC's 'Public Services' Research Pr
 ogramme. He has taught government and politics on three continents and has
  written or edited more than twenty books\, including The Limits of Admini
 stration (1976)\, The Tools of Government (1983) (updated as The Tools of 
 Government in the Digital Age\n(2007) with Helen Margetts)\, The Art of th
 e State (1998) and The Government of Risk (2001)\, with Henry Rothstein an
 d Robert Baldwin. He is currently\nchairing the Nuffield Council on Bioeth
 ics Working Party on Medical Profiling and Online Medicine.\n\nAbstract\n\
 nMy lecture will focus on the risk that matters most in politics and burea
 ucracy - namely the risk of blame. I will aim to show how concern with tha
 t central risk shapes the way public officeholders spend their time\, how\
 ngovernment organization is structured and how the standard operating rout
 ines of public service organizations develop. While 'blame games' and\nbla
 me-avoidance in government generally get a bad press\, the lecture will ar
 gue that not all blame-avoidance should be seen as negative in its effects
 \, that we can make some distinctions between 'good'and 'bad' forms of bla
 me-avoidance and that it is only 'the wrong sort of blame-avoidance'\nthat
  we should be trying to discourage. 
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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