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:
Public Administration & Public Management is essential reading for those with professional and research interests in public administration and public management. |
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... Osborne's trilogy: a critique of the management philosophy of David Osborne 18 Conclusion 27 Appendix 27 1 The principal–agent framework and the public sector 29 Introduction 29 Why is the principal–agent framework popular? 30 ...
... Osborne Given the public attention rendered to Osborne's writings on public management, it is both timely and necessary to provide a critique of his key books with various co-authors. His message is a simplistic version of NPM without ...
... Osborne has produced a set of three books that has created much attention and most probably sold very well: • Reinventing Government (1992) (with T. Gaebler) • Banishing ... Osborne starts from the kind of Osborne's trilogy: a critique 19.
The Principal-Agent Perspective Jan-Erik Lane. It is true that Osborne starts from the kind of reforms that constitute NPM and which he also endorses fully (Osborne and Plastrik, 1997: 8): • decentralisation; • re-examination of tasks ...
... Osborne started out with the cost side in Reinventing Government (Osborne and Gaebler, 1992), and in The Price of Government (Osborne and Hutchinson, 2004) he realises that the value side is as important. But he could not imagine that ...
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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 |