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: the principal-agent framework and the public sectorpublic principals and their agentsthe economic reasons of governmentpublic organization, incentives and rationality in governmentthe essence of public administration: legality and the rule of lawpublic policy criteria: the Cambridge and Chicago positionspublic teams and private teamspublic firmspublic insurancepublic management policyPublic Administration & Public Management is essential reading for those with professional and research interests in public administration and public management.