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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... policy: a contracting perspective 14 Citizen's charters 16 Osborne's trilogy: a critique of the management philosophy of David ... social value recognised? 33 Principal-agent games 34 The principal-agent approach and the public sector 38 ...
... Social priorities as incentives 53 The fundamental agency problem in the public sector 57 Public sector agency ... policy-making: will transitivity prevail? 102 Whose rationality in policy implementation ? 104 Micro rationality versus ...
... policy criteria: the Cambridge and Chicago positions 148 Introduction 148 The Chicago revolution: the ends or means of policy ... Social spending in OECD countries 167 7 Public teams are different from private teams 171 Introduction 1 71 ...
... social policy 225 Conclusion 226 10 What is public management policy? 228 Introduction 228 NPM: country-specific models or experiments 229 Guiding principles of public management policy 233 Towards a post-modern public organisation 235 ...
... Social policy and economic growth 1 65 7.1 In-house and out-of-house production 180 7.2 Monitoring: costs and value 181 8.1 Public firms: strategies and outcomes 199 8.2 Looting in a principal-agent perspective 210 C.1 Principal-agent ...
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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 |