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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... role of the state? 154 Chicago School implications 159 The world according to the Cambridge gospel: the relevance of social policy 1 63 Conclusion 166 Note 167 Appendix: Social spending in OECD countries 167 7 Public teams are different ...
... their political responsibilities and their role of economic regulation, produce principally non-market services or goods for individual or collective consumption, and redistribute income and Introduction: the public and the private sectors.
... role of rules and incentives in organisations. Thus, NPM would employ the following market-inspired mechanisms: • Policy-provision split and purchaser— provider split: Governments do many things, which is why it is essential to isolate ...
... role of self-interests in the public sector with alternative groups of actors. If the public sector is populated by revenue-maximising politicians and budget-maximising bureaucrats, then is it perhaps better to offload most of the ...
... role in bringing about outcomes meaning that cooperation among actors and stakeholders is crucial. Co-operation is the basic medium of exchange between all kinds of actors involved in policy implementation; it is dependent on how the ...
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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 |