Christopher Hood

Christopher Hood (visiting Professor, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford) has received the 2021 John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association. for his contributions to public administration and political science.

Christopher Hood has taught public administration and political science on three continents. Educated at the universities of York and Glasgow, he was a member of the research team which coined the term 'quango' in the 1970s and the first to use the term in print, and he also coined the terms 'bureaumetrics' and 'new public management' in the 1980s. He is currently leading a research project based at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government which evaluates the UK's public expenditure control system from the 1990s to the 2010s.

Degrees

• BA (First Class) in Social Sciences (Politics) University of York 1968
• B.Litt. University of Glasgow 1971
• D.Litt. University of York 1987

Employment

• ESRC Professorial Fellowship, 2011-2015
• Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University, 2001-2014, Emeritus 2014-present
• Director, ESRC Research Programme, 'Public Services: Quality, Performance, Delivery', 2004-2010
• Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, LSE, 1989-2000
• Professor of Government and Public Administration, Sydney University 1986-89
• Senior Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore 1984-85
• Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, 1972-77 and 1979-86
• Research Fellow, SSRC Machinery of Government Project, University of York (Institute of Social and Economic Research) 1977-79

Awards and Honours

• Awarded doctoral degree honoris causa, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, 2017
• Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 2011 for services to social science
• 2011 William E. Mosher and the Frederick C. Mosher Award for his article Can We? Administrative Limits Revisited by The American Society for Public Administration (ASPA)
• Routledge Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Public Management, 2010, from the International Research Society for Public Management
• Guest of honour at the 2010 High Table at The Center for Public Administration and Policy at VirginiaTech on March 26-27, 2010 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Details and photos can be found here
• Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (United States) 2010
• June Pallot Award for Best Article in the International Public Management Journal 2008, for "Rating the Rankings: Assessing International Rankings of Public Service Performance" (with Ruth Dixon and Craig Beeston)
• Elected fellow of the Sunningdale Institute, 2007
• Awarded Public Management Research Association's H. George Frederickson Award for Career Contributions to Public Management Research, 2007
• Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, 2001-03
• Elected Academician, Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences 2001
• Honorary Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, 1995-2000
• Elected Fellow of the British Academy, 1996

Visiting Positions

• Visiting Professor, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford, 2015-2018
• Visiting Professor, London School of Government and Political Science, 2010-11
• Visiting Professor, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong 1999-2000
• D.N. Chester Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, Trinity Term 1995
• Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, January-March 1995, project on regulation of public bureaucracies by other bureaucracies (spent at the Humboldt University, Berlin and University of Copenhagen)
• Simon Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester, autumn term 1994
• Visiting Research Fellow, Project on "Staatsaufgaben" Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, University of Bielefeld, 1989
• Visiting Research Fellow, Project on "Steuerung und Erfolgskontrolle im öffentlichen Sektor" Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Mar-Aug 1982