Public Administration & Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective

di Jan-Erik Lane (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2005

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.

• Autore: Jan-Erik Lane
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 2005
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 304 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 476 gr.
• EAN: 9780415370165

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