Public Administration & Public Management

Jan-Erik Lane

ISBN 10: 0415370167 / ISBN 13: 9780415370165

Published by Routledge 2005-09-22, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Public Administration & Public Management
• Publisher: Routledge 2005-09-22
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415370167
• ISBN 13: 9780415370165
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Jan-Erik Lane