Public Administration & Public Management: The Principal-Agent PerspectiveRoutledge, 21/08/2006 - 304 من الصفحات A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. Governments in any society deliver a large number of services and goods to their populations. To get the job done, they need public management in order to steer resources – employees, money and laws – into policy outputs and outcomes. In well-ordered societies the teams who work for the state work under a rule-of-law framework, known as public administration. This book covers the key issues of:
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... OECD countries 167 7 Public teams are different from private teams 171 Introduction 171 Macro view of public organisation 172 Country-specific models of public organisation 174 Public teams: people and rules 176 Micro perspective on ...
... OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries by means of a system of statistics called 'National Accounts'. The Paris-based OECD publishes comparable public finance information every year. I shall employ this ...
... OECD countries since 1980. One may characterise them by enumerating the key ideas in many of them as follows: • Emphasis on outputs and outcomes: In traditional public administration the rule-of-law emphasis leads to a focus on inputs ...
... OECD countries have in general tried to reduce commitments. It is not only a matter of increasing efficiency but also the cutting back of oversized programmes. Thus, all three parts of the public sector – allocation, redistribution and ...
... OECD countries, especially so in the welfare states. It has become increasingly difficult for governments to pay for all their public policies. Since governments are more and more hesitant about running up deficits, they have to develop ...
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1 The principalagent framework and the public sector | 29 |
2 Public principals and their agents | 48 |
3 The economic reasons for government | 77 |
4 Public organisation incentives and rationality in government | 100 |
Legality and rule of law | 125 |
The cambridge and chicago positions | 148 |
7 Public teams are different from private teams | 171 |
8 Public firms | 190 |
9 Public insurance | 212 |
10 What is public management policy | 228 |
Contracting in the public sector | 250 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 281 |