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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... Citizen's charters 16 Osborne's trilogy: a critique of the management philosophy of David Osborne 18 Conclusion 27 Appendix 27 1 The principal-agent framework and the public sector 29 Introduction 29 Why is the principal-agent framework ...
... citizens. All the effort in setting up and funding public organisations must be directed towards the accomplishment of concrete objectives, i.e. services. • Leadership or entrepreneurs hip: Public employees who are responsible for ...
... citizens, meaning that one can ask questions about efficiency, either as productivity (internal efficiency) or as effectiveness (external efficiency). • Customer service: Value derives from the appreciation of citizens 6 Introduction ...
... citizens or consumers with public programmes. Bureaux have no right to exist but must prove their existence through the value they create in society. Far from being immortal, public organisations have no intrinsic rationale but act ...
... citizen's charters have been enacted in public sector reform. Citizen's charters Charter programmes vary in content and purpose, serving the purposes both of New Right 'managerialist' concerns with rolling back of the state and ...
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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 |
legality and rule of law | 125 |
the Cambridge and Chicago positions | 148 |
Public teams are different from private teams | 171 |
Public firms | 190 |
Public insurance | 212 |
What is public management policy? | 228 |
contracting in the public sector | 250 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 281 |