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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... responsibilities and their role of economic regulation, produce principally non-market services or goods for individual or collective consumption, and redistribute income and Introduction: The public and the private sectors.
... income and wealth. The government sector includes central government or federal government, which tends to be the biggest subsector, at least financially. The central government subsector consists of the institutional units making up ...
... income maintenance programmes (social security); and public regulation. The operation of these activities–allocation, redistribution and regulation – requires staff, meaning that governments must hire people and set up organisations ...
... income redistribution and the amount of public regulation. The discipline of public management examines how the public employees are to be organised so that the job gets done. Various quantitative indicators have been developed in order ...
... income maintenance opens up the possibility of market testing the production of goods and services. Since contestability is forthcoming when entry is open, governments should apply competitive tendering or bidding for all the services ...
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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 |