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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... agency: hidden action 58 Public sector agency: hidden knowledge 60 The two main solutions to the agency problems 61 Budgeting: the principal–agent perspective 63 Conclusion 75 3 The economic reasons for government 77 Introduction 77 ...
... agency regulatory problem Social policy and economic growth In-house and out-of-house production Monitoring: costs and value Public firms: strategies and outcomes Looting in a principal–agent perspective Principal–agent interaction I ...
... agencies, as well as the state enterprises, upon game theory and the new economics of information, comprising inter alia the ... agency. All chapters were written for this volume, except that I have drawn on one published article ...
... agencies, including the central bank. The public enterprises are sometimes placed in the public sector and sometimes in the private sector, if organised as jointstock firms. Principal–agent interaction arises in the public sector as one ...
... agencies and enterprises or firms. Thus, in any society one may make a demarcation between the public and the private sectors. This separation may not be crystal clear or neatly institutionalised, but it still exists. It is done in ...
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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 |