Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens

by Julian Le Grand

Book Overview

Can we rely on the altruism of professionals or the public service ethos to deliver good quality health and education services? How should patients, parents and pupils behave - as grateful recipients or active consumers? The book provides new answers to these questions, and evaluates recent government policies in health services, education, social security and taxation, and puts forward proposals for policy reform: universal capital or 'demogrants',...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199298912
• ISBN13: 9780199298914
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.1"