The Political Economy of Public Administration

The Political Economy of Public Administration
Author: Murray J. Horn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1995-11-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521484367

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 to influence administrative decision making, the role of civil service arrangements that are so often seen as simply frustrating efficiency and responsiveness, and the boundary between public and private sectors. This book should be of value to those with a practical interest in public administration as well as students of political science, public administration, economics, and public policy.

The Political Economy Of International Organizations

The Political Economy Of International Organizations
Author: Roland Vaubel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000304507

The idea for this volume was conceived by Frederick Praeger, founder of Westview Press, who asked Roland Vaubel if he would put together a collection of chapters on the public choice approach to the study of international organizations. Vaubel felt it would be useful to have a coeditor from the United States, and Thomas D. Willett enthusiastically agreed to take on these duties.

The Political Economy: Readings in the Politics and Economics of American Public Policy

The Political Economy: Readings in the Politics and Economics of American Public Policy
Author: Thomas Ferguson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2021-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315495791

The Political Economy is ideally suited as a supplementary text for courses in American government and politics, policy studies, business-government relations, and economic issues and policy making. It integrates selections from the very finest new and classical works of political and economic analysis, by distinguished scholars, into a comprehensive overview of the American political system.

Public Governance and the Classical-Liberal Perspective

Public Governance and the Classical-Liberal Perspective
Author: Paul Dragos Aligica
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-06-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190267038

A distinctive perspective on governance: the building blocks -- Classical liberalism : delineating its theory of governance -- Function, structure, and process at the private-public interface -- Dynamic governance : the polycentrism process and knowledge processes -- Public choice and public administration : the confluence -- Public administration and public choice : charting the field -- Public choice, public administration, and self-governance : the Ostromian confluence -- Heterogeneity, coproduction, and polycentric governance : the Ostroms' public choice institutionalism revisited -- Framing the applied level : themes, issue areas, and cases -- Metropolitan governance : polycentric solutions for complex problems -- Independent regulatory agencies and their reform : an exercise in institutional imagination -- Polycentric stakeholder analysis : corporate governance and corporate social responsibility -- Conclusions: governance and public management : a vindication of the classical-liberal perspective?

The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance

The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance
Author: Anthony Michael Bertelli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2012-03-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107393515

In The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance, Anthony Michael Bertelli introduces core ideas in positive political theory as they apply to public management and policy. Though recent literature that mathematically models relationships between politicians and public managers provides insight into contemporary public administration, the technical way these works present information limits their appeal. This book helps readers understand public-sector governance arrangements and the implications these arrangements have for public management practice and policy outcomes by presenting information in a non-technical way.

The Political Economy of Local Government

The Political Economy of Local Government
Author: Brian Dollery
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781782541165

A study of local government policy formulation, drawing on developments in economics - such as new institutional economics - and advances in the theories of social capital and leadership. The authors also examine rival minimalist and activist approaches to local government reform.

Understanding and Managing Public Organizations

Understanding and Managing Public Organizations
Author: Hal G. Rainey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2009-08-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0787980005

In the third edition of his award-winning book, Hal G. Rainey provides a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of research on public organizations and management. Drawing on a review of the most current research about government organizations and managers— and about effective and ineffective practices in government— this important resource offers specific suggestions for managing these challenges in today's public organizations. Using illustrative, real-life vignettes and examples, the book provides expert analysis of organizational design, goals, power, effectiveness, leadership, motivation and work attitudes, decisionmaking, and more.