1st Edition
Public Administration & Public Management The Principal-Agent Perspective
By Jan-Erik Lane
Copyright 2005
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction: The Public and the Private Sectors 1. The Principal-Agent Framework and the Public Sector 2. Public Principals and their Agents 3. The Economic Reasons of Government 4. Public Organisation, Incentives and Rationality in Government 5. The Essence of Public Administration: Legality and the Rule of Law 6. Public Policy Criteria: The Cambridge and Chicago Positions 7. Public Teams are Different from Private Teams
Biography
Jan-Erik Lane
