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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... employees, money and laws – into policy outputs and outcomes. In a well-ordered society the teams who work for the state deliver under a rule of law framework – public administration. Public Administration and Public Management provides ...
... employees, money and law 85 Transaction costs and coordination 86 The enforcement mechanism and groups 87 Contractarian schools 89 Contracting in the public sector 93 The two kinds of transaction costs 93 The state and transaction costs ...
... employees to hire, and (2) how to organise these employees. I shall pinpoint the major changes in public administration and management that have occurred in the last 20 years, making it an interesting discipline in the social sciences ...
... employees are to be organised so that the job gets done. Various quantitative indicators have been developed in order to identify the demarcation line between the public and the private as well as to estimate the size of the public ...
... employees cannot be restricted by red tape. • Contracting: The leaders of public organisations must have great latitude to contract with their employees or buy goods and services from outsiders. Running a public organisation is about ...
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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 |