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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... 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 95 Transaction costs and fairness 98 Conclusion 99 4 Public organisation ...
... mechanisms: • Policy–provision split and purchaser–provider split: Governments do many things, which is why it is ... mechanism to handle an entire sector or a certain level of government such as a local government. • Incorporation ...
... mechanisms such as vouchers, the negative income tax, third-party access and workfare arrangements (Leube and Moore, 1986; Becker et al., 1995; Coase, 1990; Solow, 1998). • The agency approach and the economics of information: In the ...
... mechanisms and the irrelevance of central control over an increasingly complex society. Time was no doubt ripe for the propagation of these theories as the post-industrial society called for new governance structures. Yet these sources ...
... mechanisms in public organisations. The purpose is to increase both political accountability and technical competence, but the outcomes need not be the intended ones. Several studies report on unintended results, such as increasing ...
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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 |