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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... institutions and organisations, including public administration, public policy and policy implementation, political economy, public choice, organisational theory, neo-institutional theory, etc. No attempt is made here to cover all these ...
... institutional units: all units of central, state or local government; all social security funds at each level of government; and all non-market, non-profit institutions that are controlled and financed by government units. This sector ...
... institutional units making up the central government plus the bureaux and agencies that are controlled and mainly financed ... institutions (or, in some instances, by commercial banks). Here we find the issue of currency, maintenance and ...
... institutional arrangements in various countries but also state recommendations about management reforms, and their feasibility and desirability. The political nature of public management cannot be denied, referring 4 Introduction: the ...
... institutional economics and the economics of information, theorising the role of rules and incentives in organisations. Thus, NPM would employ the following market-inspired mechanisms: • Policy-provision split and purchaser— provider ...
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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 |