Public Administration & Public Management - Jan-Erik Lane

Public Administration & Public Management

Jan-Erik Lane
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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 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.