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:
Public Administration & Public Management is essential reading for those with professional and research interests in public administration and public management. |
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... public sector 250 Introduction 250 The state and transaction costs 251 Reasonable and unreasonable reform attempts 256 Conclusion 258 Bibliography 263 Index 281 List of Figures I.1 Costs, effort and benefits 15 I.2 viii Contents.
... effort and benefits 15 I.2 Wage, effort and output 16 1.1 Principal-agent interaction: the general picture 41 2.1 Spending on social and private objectives 54 2.2 Principal-agent contracting 55 2.3 Principal-agent interaction I 73 2.4 ...
... Effort and output 65 4.1 Rationality in public administration 101 4.2 The PD game 108 4.3 The chicken game 109 4.4 The batde of the sexes 110 4.5 Assurance game 111 4.6 The Samaritan's problem 111 4.7 The civic duty game 112 5.1 The ...
... effort to base the understanding of government, its bureaux and agencies, as well as the state enterprises, upon game theory and the new economics of information, comprising inter alia the principal- agent approach. Approaching 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 service provision need ...
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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 |