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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:
- the principal-agent framework and the public sector
- public principals and their agents
- the economic reasons of government
- public organization, incentives and rationality in government
- the essence of public administration: legality and the rule of law
- public policy criteria: the Cambridge and Chicago positions
- public teams and private teams
- public firms
- public insurance
- public management policy
Public Administration & Public Management is essential reading for those with professional and research interests in public administration and public management.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xii + 292 pages, NOT ex-library. A clean and bright copy with unmarked text and firm binding, free of inscriptions and stamps. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Introduction: Public & Private Sectors [Need for Public Administration or Public Management; New Public Management: General Framework; Public Management: Merit & Accountability; Public Administration & Public Policy: Contracting Perspective; Citizen's Charters; Critique of the Management Philosophy of David Osborne]; Principal-Agent Framework & Public Sector [Why Is the Principal-Agent Framework Popular; Principals & Agents: Contracting As the Essence of Interaction; Incentives: How Is Egoism & Social Value Recognised; Principal-Agent Games; Principal-Agent Approach & Public Sector; Management, Public Organisation & Principal-Agent Model; Public Management & Politics/?Administration Separation]; Public Principals & Their Agents [From Public Finance to Public Management; Public Principal; Social Priorities As Incentives; Fundamental Agency Problem In the Public Sector; Public Sector Agency: Hidden Action & Knowledge; Two Main Solutions to the Agency Problems; Budgeting: Principal-Agent Perspective]; Economic Reasons for Government [Imperium & Patrimonium; Crown Jewels Are Not Merely Regalia; Eminent Domain; Public Goods & Merit Goods; Public Necessity; Government As Employees, Money & Law; Transaction Costs & Coordination; Enforcement Mechanism & Groups; Contractarian Schools; Contracting in the Public Sector; Two Kinds of Transaction Costs; State & Transaction Costs; Transaction Costs & Fairness]; Public Organisation, Incentives & Rationality in Government [Rational Public Administration; Rationality in Policy-Making: Will Transitivity Prevail; Whose Rationality in Policy Implementation; Micro vs Macro Rationality; Cooperation & Coordination Failures; State: Arena & Organisation; Politics As the Arena of Policy-Making; Public Organisation As the Implementation of Policy; Political Organisation: Three Basic Types; Basic Logic of Public Organisation; Macro & Micro Rationality & Non-Profit Organisations]; Essence of Public Administration: Legality & Rule of Law [Thin Legal Concept of Legal-Rational Authority; What Is Legitimacy; Legality; Rights; Separation of Powers; Publicity & Redress; Legal Review; Hayek Argument About Law & Rule of Law; Democracy & Rule of Law; Growing Demand for Rule of Law: Judicialisation; Public Administration & Reregulation: Principal-Agent Perspective]; Public Policy Criteria: Cambridge & Chicago Positions [Chicago Revolution: The Ends or Means of Policy; World According to the Chicago Gospel: Key Hypotheses; Law & Markets: What Is the Role of the State; Chicago School Implications; World According to the Cambridge Gospel: Relevance of Social Policy; Appendix: Social Spending In OECD Countries]; Public Teams Are Different from Private Teams [Macro View of Public Organisation; Country-Specific Models of Public Organisation; Public Teams: People & Rules; Micro Perspective on Public Organisation; Limits of New Managerialism; Public Organisation & Public Teams]; Public Firms [Contradictions Inherent in Public Enterprise; Public Enterprises & Economy; Behavioural Consequences of the New System; Overall Assessment of 'Like to Like']; Public Insurance [Elements of Pension Systems; Organisation of Public Insurance; Challenges: Adequacy, Coverage & Sustainability; Economic Dependency Ratio; Future: Avoiding Deficits or Reneging; From Welfare to Workfare: Moral Hazard Perspective; Social Security & Social Policy]; What Is Public Management Policy [NPM: Country-Specific Models or Experiments; Guiding Principles of Public Management Policy; Towards a Post-Modern Public Organisation; Public Management Reform: What Is the Drive; Public Management Function; Core Public Management Functions; Does Public Management Matter]; Conclusion: Contracting in the Public Sector [State & Transaction Costs; Reasonable & Unreasonable Reform Attempts]. Seller Inventory # 005369
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