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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Ruth Dixon

Public administration scholars of blame avoidance, reputation management, and government accountability theater.

Why this matters

Hood explains defensive institutions—when accountability processes protect officials from correction.

Focus in observatory

Works

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A Government That Worked Better and Cost Less?

Hood, Christopher, and Ruth Dixon. *A Government That Worked Better and Cost Less?* Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Coupling

Cohesion, Consequence, and the Architecture of Responsibility

A practical framework for seeing where systems are tightly joined, where they drift apart, and how those coupling choices shape accountability over time.