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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 framework, known as public administration. This book covers the key issues of:the principal-agent framework and the public sectorpublic principals and their agents the economic reasons of governmentpublic organization, incentives and rationality in governmentthe essence of public administration: legality and the rule of lawpublic policy criteria: the Cambridge and Chicago positionspublic teams and private teamspublic firmspublic insurancepublic management policyPublic Administration & Public Managementis essential reading for those with professional and research interests in public administration and public management. | Public Administration And Public Management by Jan-Erik Lane, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters