State Management: An Enquiry Into Models of Public Administration & Management

ISBN-13: 9780415492355 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 184 str.

Jan-Erik Lane

Opis

Offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of state management, systematically examining the key approaches to the study of how government attempts to achieve successful delivery of public services, discussing the pros and cons of alternative frameworks of analysis.

Spis treści

Introduction: Is Public Management Different from Private Sector Management?  1. Formal Organisation Models: The Relevance of Informal Organisation  2. Asymmetric Information Models: The Principal-Agent Perspective  3. Policy Models: How Rational is Public Management?  4. Implementation Models: Bringing Outcomes into Public Management and Policy  5. Independent Agencies: Maximising Efficiency?  6. Policy Network Models: The Virtues and Vices of Public-Private Partnerships  7. Marketization Models: How Much Buying and Selling in Government?  8. Incorporation as a Strategy: Transforming The Public Enterprises  9. Principals and Agents: Public Regulation  10. Multi-Level Governance: Bringing in the Two Regional Dimensions  11. Politics and Jurisprudence: Law and the State  12. Ecology and Policy: How to Combine?  13. The Developmental State: From the Third World to the First World  14. The Comparative Challenge: Are there Different State Models?  Conclusion: Public Management as the Encompassing Framework for State Management

O autorze

Jan-Erik Lane has taught as a professor in several universities around the globe. He has published numerous books and articles on many topics in political science. He was professor at the University of Geneva between 1996-2008 and is currently Mercator visiting professor at Heidelberg university