Authors: Jan-Erik Lane
ISBN-13: 9780415370165, ISBN-10: 0415370167
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: New Edition
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:
Public Administration & Public Management is essential reading for those with professional and research interests in public administration and public management.
Introduction : the public and the private sectors | 1 | |
1 | The principal-agent framework and the public sector | 29 |
2 | Public principals and their agents | 48 |
3 | The economic reasons for government | 77 |
4 | Public organisation, incentives and rationality in government | 100 |
5 | The essence of public administration : legality and rule of law | 125 |
6 | Public policy criteria : the Cambridge and Chicago positions | 148 |
7 | Public teams are different from private teams | 171 |
8 | Public firms | 190 |
9 | Public insurance | 212 |
10 | What is public management policy? | 228 |
Conclusion : contracting in the public sector | 250 |