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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... relevance of social policy 1 63 Conclusion 166 Note 167 Appendix: Social spending in OECD countries 167 7 Public teams are different from private teams 171 Introduction 1 71 Macro view of public organisation 1 72 Country-specific models ...
... relevance of the 'two Cs' to the public sector: choice and competition. • Decentralisation: Offloading government has often meant moving tasks from central government to regional or local governments. Devolution is considered an ...
... relevance of market mechanisms and the irrelevance of central control over an increasingly complex society. Time was no doubt ripe for the propagation of these theories as the post-industrial society called for new governance structures ...
... relevance of the political process, resulting in the overall framework for the activity of a public organisation, or a set of public organisations when tasks are interdependent between several public organisations. Thus, it deals with ...
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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 |