Public sector

Author: Jean-Eric Lane
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This book introduces the main theories of decision-making, implementation, and management in modern states. It serves as a foundational course for public decision-making, policy analysis, and public management or public administration, covering the following topics: public institutions and interests, the positioning of the public sector, the concept of bureaucracy, models of public policy, implementation models, models of public regulation, the logic of public sector reforms, public management, leadership, and privatization, managerial states and administrative states, public choice methods, new institutionalism, efficiency, effectiveness, and evaluation, institutions and efficiency in the public sector, ethical and normative policy models, new public management: basic concepts, conclusion.