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Public Administration and Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective | |||
Public Administration and Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective |
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER: The Public And The Private Sectors
Need Of Public Administration or Public Management
New Public Management: The General Framework
Public Management: Merit And Accountability
Public administration and Public Policy: A Contracting Perspective
Conclusion
Chapter 1: THE PRINCIPAL-AGENT FRAMEWORK AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Introduction
Why is the Principal-Agent Framework Popular?
Principals and Agents: Contracting as the Essence of Interaction
Incentives: How to recognize egoism and social value?
Principal-Agent Games
The Principal-Agent Approach and the Public Sector
Management, Public Organisation and the Principal-Agent Model
Accountability and Competence in Government
Public Management and the Politics/Administration Separation
Conclusion
Chapter 2: PUBLIC PRINCIPALS AND THEIR AGENTS
Introduction
From Public Finance to Public Management
The Public Principal
Social Priorities as Incentives
The Fundamental Agency problem in the Public Sector
Public Sector Agency: Hidden Action
Public Sector Agency: Hidden Knowledge
The Two Main Solutions to the Agency problems
Budgeting: The Principal-Agent perspective
Conclusion
Chapter 3: THE ECONOMIC REASONS OF GOVERNMENT
Introduction
Imperium .- Patrimonium
Crown Jewels are not merely Regalia
Eminent Domain
Public Goods and Merit Goods
Public Necessity
Government as Employees, Money and Law
Transaction Costs and Coordination
The Enforcement Mechanism and Groups
Contractarian Schools
Contracting in the Public Sector
The Two Kinds of Transaction Costs
The State and Transaction Costs
Transaction Costs and Fairness
Conclusion
Chapter 4: PUBLIC ORGANISATION, INCENTIVES AND RATIONALITY IN
GOVERNMENT
Introduction
Rational Public Administration
Rationality in Policy Making: Will transitivity prevail?
Whose Rationality in Policy Implementation?
Micro Rationality versus Macro Rationality
Cooperation and Coordination Failures
Politics and Administration
Politics as the Arena of Policy Making
Public Organisation as the Implementation of Policy
Political Organisation: Three Basic Types
Public Organisation: The Basic Logic
Accountability
Macro and Micro Rationality and the NPO:s
Conclusion
Chapter 5: THE ESSENCE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: LEGALITY AND THE
RULE OF LAW
Introduction
Legal-Rational Authority
What is Legitimacy?
Legality
Rights
Separation of Powers
Legal Review
Public Administration and Regulation: A Principal-Agent Perspecive
The Hayek Argument about Law and Rule of Law
An Anti-Hayek Argument: Creating Rule of Law
Growing Demand for Rule of Law: Judicialisation
Public Regulation from a Principal-Agent Perspective
Conclusion
Chapter 6: PUBLIC POLICY CRITERIA: THE CAMBRIDGE AND CHICAGO
POSITIONS
Introduction
The Chicago Revolution: The Ends or Means of Policy?
The World According to the Chicago Gospel: The Key Hypotheses
Law and Markets: what is the Role of the state?
Chicago School Implications
The World According to the Cambridge Gospel: The Relevance of Social Policy
Conclusion
Chapter 7: PUBLIC TEAMS ARE DIFFERENT FROM PRIVATE TEAMS
Introduction
Macro View Upon Public Organisation
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