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Informationen zum Autor Jan-Erik Lane is Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva. Klappentext The Third Edition of this successful textbook introduces students to the major concepts, models, and approaches surrounding the public sector. Now fully updated to include coverage of the New Public Management (NPM), The Public Sector is the most comprehensive textbook on theories of public policy and public administration. The Public Sector is introduced within a three-part framework: public resource allocation, redistribution and regulation. Jan-Erik Lane explains the basic concepts of each of these broad areas, and goes on to examine their consequences for various approaches to the making and implementation of public policy. The book explores models of management, effectiveness and efficiency, and evaluates the contribution, among many, of public choice and neo-institutionalist approaches, organizational theory, models of normative policy-making and, expanded in this edition, the theory of fiscal federalism. The New Edition retains chapters on public sector reform and continues to contrast the logic of the new management state with that of the old administrative state before introducing the basic ideas of New Public Management. The Public Sector will be essential reading to all students seeking a deeper understanding of the modern state and government across political science and public policy, administration and management. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Public Institutions and Interests Demarcation of the Public Sector Concepts of Bureaucracy Public Policy Models Implementation Models Models of Public Regulation The Logic of Public Sector Reform Public Management, Leadership and Privatization The Management State versus the Administrative State The Public Choice Approach The New Institutionalism Efficiency, Effectiveness and Evaluation Institutions and Efficiency in the Public Sector Ethics and Normative Policy Models New Public Management The Basic Ideas Conclusion What Are the Policy Sciences? ...
