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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النتائج 1-5 من 63
... incentives and rationality in government • the essence of public administration: legality and the rule of law • public policy criteria: the Cambridge and Chicago positions • public teams and private teams • public firms • public ...
... Incentives: how is egoism and social value recognised? 33 Principal–agent games 34 The principal–agent approach and the public sector 38 Management, public organisation and the principal–agent model 41 Public management and the politics ...
... incentives 53 The fundamental agency problem in the public sector 57 Public sector agency: hidden action 58 Public sector agency: hidden knowledge 60 The two main solutions to the agency problems 61 Budgeting: the principal–agent ...
... incentives in organisations. Thus, NPM would employ the following market-inspired mechanisms: • Policy–provision split and purchaser–provider split: Governments do many things, which is why it is essential to isolate the allocative part ...
... incentives in governance? One does not have to have an economistic mind to emphasise the role of incentives, which Kooiman almost entirely bypasses. Public administration and management is, in my view, first and foremost strategy, and ...
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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 |