Christopher Cropper Hood (born 1947) is a visiting Professor of the

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at the

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, and an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Hood was Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford, from 2001 to 2014, and Director of the

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Research Programme ''Public Services: Quality, Performance and Delivery'' from 2004 to 2010. 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), '' The Art of the State'' (1998 and 2000) and '' A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?'' (2015, with Ruth Dixon). He chaired the

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' Working Party on ''medical profiling and online medicine'' from 2008 to 2010. He specialises in the study of executive government, regulation and public-sector reform and has written on

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Education

Hood obtained a

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degree (

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) in Social Sciences from the University of York in 1968, and a B.Litt. degree from the

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in 1971. He was awarded a

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degree from the University of York in 1987.

Awards

''The Art of the State'' was awarded the 1998 W. J. M. Mackenzie award of the

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. He was appointed

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(CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours. ''A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?'' was awarded the 2015

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Book Award of the National Academy of Public Administration and the 2016 W. J. M. Mackenzie award. In 2017, Hood was awarded an

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(Dr.h.c.) from the

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, "for his contribution to the development of the field of Public Administration in general and in the Netherlands in particular".

Selected bibliography

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References

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