Public Administration and Public Management: The Principal-agent Perspective

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Taylor & Francis, 2005 - 292 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:

  • the principal-agent framework and the public sector
  • public principals and their agents
  • the economic reasons of government
  • public organization, 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 insurance
  • public management policy

Public Administration & Public Management is essential reading for those with professional and research interests in public administration and public management.

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The principalagent framework and the public sector
29
Public principals and their agents
48
The economic reasons for government
77
Public organisation incentives and rationality in government
100
Micro rationality versus macro rationality
106
arena and organisation
113
legality and rule of law
125
Separation of powers
131
the relevance of social policy
163
Public teams are different from private teams
171
Public insurance
212
What is public management policy?
228
contracting in the public sector
250
Bibliography
263
Index
280
228
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Democracy and rule of law
139
Conclusion
145

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