Publisher's Synopsis
This book grew out of research on patterns of accountability in corporatist arrangements, commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council as part of its Corporatism and Accountability Initiative. The research (completed in 1987) convinced the authors that public-private interactions have become a permanent part of the British constitutional landscape, but that such interactions are rarely given legal form and that their subjection to requirements of accountability is unduly haphazard and meagre.
