Public Administration & Public Management : The Principal-Agent Perspective (9780415370158)

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.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 304 pages
• Dimensions 156 x 234 x 21.34mm | 720g
• Publication date 01 Nov 2005
• Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Imprint Routledge
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 20 Tables, black and white; 18 Line drawings, black and white
• ISBN10 0415370159
• ISBN13 9780415370158

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