Public Administration & Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective

by Jan-Erik Lane and Lane Janerik

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415370159
• ISBN13: 9780415370158
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"