The Political Economy of Public Administration: Institutional Choice in the Public Sector

by Horn, Murray J. Horn, Murray J. and Murray J. Horn

Book Overview

This book applies the basic ideas and models of economics to develop a single transactions framework to explain the key institutional arrangements across the whole range of public sector organization: the regulatory commission, the executive tax-financed bureau, and the state-owned enterprise. This book also explores the link between agency form and administrative function, agency independence from the legislature, the rights extended to private interests...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521484367
• ISBN13: 9780521484367
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"