Market Failure, Government Failure, Leadership and Public Policy

ISBN-13: 9780333734230 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 214 str.

Usa) Brian (University Of New England Dollery; Joe Wallis

Opis

A global wave of reform is fundamentally transforming both the nature and the role of the state in advanced national economies. This book provides a fresh and readily accessible perspective on the political economy of this megatrend. It traces the theoretical roots of public sector reforms to conceptual developments in public economics, which revolve around debates on the relative importance of market and government failure. The book then breaks new ground by developing an economic theory of leadership to explain how policy entrepreneurs and policy networks can drive the direction of reform processes in representative democracies. This theory of leadership contests current conventional wisdom on public sector reform represented by the New Public Management and contractualist approaches to improving public sector productivity. It argues that these approaches overlook the potentially crucial role of leadership in public agencies and the various ways in which transformational leadership can activate reform and stimulate efficiency.

Spis treści

List of Tables List of Figures Introduction Market Failure and Government Intervention Government Failure and Government Intervention New Institutional Economics, New Public Management and Government Failure The Political Economy of Paradigmatic Policy Change Economics and Leadership Theory An Economic Theory of Hope and Leadership The Rhetorical Patterns in Paradigmatic Policy Change Conclusion References Index

O autorze

BRIAN DOLLERY has taught economics at the University of South Africa (1976-1978) and Rhodes University (1979-1987) in South Africa, East Carolina University (1985) and Creighton University (1991) in the United States, and the University of New England (1988-) in Australia. He has published widely in economics, public administration and public policymaking. Previous books include Leading Issues in South African Macroeconomics, and Australian Local Government: Reform and Renewal.

JOE WALLIS has taught public economics and macroeconomics at Rhodes University, South Africa (1984-1987) and Otago University, New Zealand (1987-) where he currently holds the position of Senior Lecturer. He has published widely in international journals in economics, pubic administration and pubic policy. His main interest is in the role of leadership in public policy, a topic that crosses the disciplinary boundaries between economics and politics. This is his first book.