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Christopher Hood

Christopher Cropper Hood (born 1947) is a visiting professor of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, 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 ESRC 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 Nuffield Council on Bioethics' 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 New Public Management. Provided by Wikipedia