Public Administration and Public Management: The Principal-agent PerspectiveTaylor & Francis, 2005 - 292 pages 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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Contents
Public principals and their agents | 2 |
The principalagent framework and the public sector | 29 |
Introduction | 77 |
Public organisation incentives and rationality in government | 100 |
legality and rule of law | 125 |
the Cambridge and Chicago positions | 148 |
what is the role of the state? | 154 |
the relevance of social policy | 163 |
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What is public management policy? | 228 |
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contracting in the public sector | 250 |
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Public Administration & Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective Jan-Erik Lane Limited preview - 2006 |
Public Administration & Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective Jan-Erik Lane Limited preview - 2006 |