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Inspectors General: Duty, Authority, Integrity examines the firsthand experiences and insights of practitioners who work in an omnipresent yet little understood government watchdog institution, the Office of Inspector General (OIG). OIGs continuously monitor, and ensure accountability of public employees, contractors, and beneficiaries within their jurisdiction . Although OIGs were originally not found outside of military settings, since the mid-1970s, they are now an established part of most federal executive agencies in the United States, as well as of state and local governments; they are tasked with fighting waste, fraud, abuse and to improve the efficacy of Medicare, Medicaid among over a hundred other HHS programs. Yet most US Master of Public Administration programs, political science departments, and law schools do not teach about OIGs as an important mechanism of ethics, accountability and oversight. They are relatively understudied despite their ubiquitousness and impact.
This book presents chapters authored by leading academics and practitioners to provide a comprehensive and in-depth overview of the institution, and its history, design, challenges, and successes.
Inspectors General: Duty, Authority, Integrity is essential reading for those working in public administration or political science; legal scholars; government consultants; healthcare providers, and those who study public management, government accountability and oversight, democratic control of the executive branch, institutional design, and public agency performance. Faculty members would find it invaluable not only as a collection of academic research but also consider its use for master's level and doctoral classes. Additionally, professionals in the world of federal, state, and local OIGs, compliance officers, as well as in positions of oversight generally. would have an interest in this book.
Contents
Chapter 1. Investigations; Matthew D. Harris and Colin May
Chapter 2. Auditing; Lise Valentine
Chapter 3. Reports and Other Written Communications from Offices of Inspector General; Melinda M. Miguel and Francis Marvin Doyal
Chapter 4. The Relationship between the Overseer and the Overseen; Robin J. Kempf
Chapter 5. Navigating the Relationship Between the Inspector General and the Agency Head; Glenn Fine
Chapter 6. The Inspector General Concept in Historical Context: From 1500 B.C.E. to Today; Robert Angelo Cerasoli and Neah Downs-Dybas
Chapter 7. Finding Its Voice and Strengths: The Evolution of the Federal Inspector General Community; Jay N. Lerner
Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of the United States Federal Inspectors General: Will They Be Phoenixes Rising?; Stuart C. Gilman
Chapter 9. Impossible Mission? A Good-government Nonprofit's Quest to Create a Delaware Office of the State Inspector General; Nick Wasileski, Katherine S. Ward, and John Kowalko III
Chapter 10. Five Short Years: The Formation and Destruction of an Office of Inspector General; Shannon K. Manigault
Chapter 11. An Inspector General's Challenges with Obstruction and Independence Impairments; Harriet Richardson
Chapter 12. The Importance of Independence: Observations from a Veteran Inspector General; Stephen B. Street, Jr.
