Monitoring Government: Inspectors General and the Search for Accountability Book

	Introduction	1
	Why Study IGs?	2
	Methods of Inquiry	4
	Plan of the Book	5
Pt. 1	Frameworks
1	The Newest Monitors	11
	Paths to Accountability	12
	Monitoring toward Accountability	16
	Conclusion: An Era of Limits	21
2	The Rise of the IG Concept	23
	An Introduction to the IG Act	23
	A Brief History	25
	A Statutory Prototype	28
	A Nonstatutory Alternative	31
	Conclusion: A Barbed Wire Fence	35
Pt. 2	Designing the Concept
3	Why Congress Acted	39
	The Three Horsemen of the IG Concept	39
	The Politics of Fraud Busting	43
	The Information Imperative	48
	Conclusion: The Choice of Compliance	57
4	Creating a Strong Right Arm	58
	What Might Have Been	59
	The IG Job Description	61
	Institutionalized Ambivalence	68
Pt. 3	Implementing the Act
5	The Class of 1979	81
	Carter's Choices	82
	An Abbreviated Term	90
	Conclusion: Too Much to Do, Too Little Time	100
6	Glory Days	102
	Fear of Firing	103
	Getting Started ... Again	104
	The Seeds of Alliance	111
	Conclusion: A Match Made in Heaven?	118
7	Backlash	121
	The Class of 1985	121
	Fine-Tuning	128
	Into the Bush Years	131
	Conclusion: Uncertain Futures	145
Pt. 4	Organizing for Accountability
8	A Drift toward Investigation	149
	Auditors and Investigators	150
	The Investigatory Impulse	160
	Conclusion: Protecting IGs	169
9	The Organizational IGs	175
	An Organizational History of the OIGs	177
	The Organizational Future	189
	The IGs as Institutional Memory	200
Pt. 5	Questions of Effectiveness
10	Measuring the Impact of IGs	203
	Measures of Effectiveness	204
	Conclusion: Questions of Performance	220
11	The Future of the IG Concept	224
	The IG Act Innovations	225
	A Reprise on Reform	229
	A Safe Harbor for Analysis	234
	Appendix: Interview Contacts	236
	Notes	241
	Index	265