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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... outsourcing The public sector: motives and output Effort and output Rationality in public administration The PD game The chicken game The battle of the sexes Assurance game The Samaritan's problem The civic duty game The trust game ...
... outsourcing or by the public enterprises. It comes with a price tag that must be covered by government taxation and user fees plus borrowing. Eventually, the costs of borrowing must also be covered by means of taxation. The government ...
... outsourcing may hollow out government and lead to the concentration of asset-specific knowledge in the private sector. • Leaner or flatter organisation: The typical transformation of the structure of private firms has been accepted also ...
... outsourcing. • Contestability: The separation of allocation from regulation and income maintenance opens up the possibility of market testing the production of goods and services. Since contestability is forthcoming when entry is open ...
... outsourcing. Public organisation is a need for a public management policy which outlines what is to be done in-house and out-of-house, as well as how much discretion managers may use given the requirements of rule of law (Pugh, 1997 ...
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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 |