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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... strategies and outcomes 199 8.2 Looting in a principal-agent perspective 210 C.1 Principal-agent interaction I 260 C.2 Principal-agent interaction II 260 C.3 Principal-agent interaction III 261 List of Tables I.1 Merit and ...
... strategy. New Public Management: the general framework It is difficult to find one concise definition of NPM in the literature. The term NPM appeared in the early 1990s, and designated the ongoing public sector reforms in Anglo-Saxon ...
... strategy in public sector reform, whether in federal or unitary states. One may wish to distinguish between decentralisation (from state to local government) and deconcentration (from central level to provincial level in the state) ...
... strategies from bureaux (Brennan and Buchanan, 2000, 2001; Niskanen, 2004). • Chicago School economics: The theory about market efficiency was launched at the same time as scholars started to speak about government overload. Thus, the ...
... strategy, and incentives are crucial for determining the strategies of the players involved, whether the interaction is authority or reciprocity. All the above theories paved the way for the arrival of NPM, underlining the relevance of ...
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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 |