Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver.
2. Majone, Giandomenico.
3. Ostrom, Vincent, 1919-2012.

Description

1. xiii, 830 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series statement

1. De Gruyter studies in organization ; 4

Uniform title

1. De Gruyter studies in organization ; 4.

Subject

1. Public administration
2. Bureaucracy
3. Policy sciences
4. Policy sciences > addresses, essays, lectures
5. Bureaucracy
6. Policy sciences
7. Public administration
8. public sector
9. bureaucracy
10. public administration
11. management
12. efficiency
13. decision making
14. financial management
15. auditing
16. management audit
17. evaluation technique
18. profitability
19. responsibility
20. theory
21. Administration publique
22. Bureaucratie
23. Techniques de décision en politique
24. secteur public
25. bureaucratie
26. administration publique
27. gestion
28. efficacité
29. prise de décision
30. gestion financière
31. vérification comptable
32. contrôle de gestion
33. technique d'évaluation
34. rentabilité
35. responsabilité
36. théorie
37. sector público
38. burocracia
39. administración pública
40. administración
41. eficiencia
42. toma de decisiones
43. dirección financiera
44. auditoría
45. auditaje administrativo
46. técnica de evaluación
47. rentabilidad
48. responsabilidad moral
49. teoría
50. OECD countries
51. pays de l'OCDE
52. países de la OCDE

Genre/Form

1. bibliography.
2. bibliographie.
3. bibliografía.

Contents

1. Introduction : history of the project and background to the problem -- Development of the public sector : trends and issues -- Analyzing the public sector : shortcomings of current approaches -- The modern state : continental traditions -- Constitutional considerations with particular reference to the federal systems -- The blurring of the distinction "state versus society" in the idea and practice of the welfare state -- Measuring the public sector : a contestable issue -- Intergovernmental policy-making: the limits of subnational autonomy -- The hidden public sector : The "quangocratization" of the world? -- The relationship between guidance, control, and evaluation -- A fallabilist's approach to norms and criteria of choice -- Institutional utilitarianism -- The ethical context of bureaucracy and performance analysis -- Assessing evaluation research -- What can we learn from implementation research? -- A cybernetic view of guidance, control and evaluation in the public sector -- Markets and hierarchies -- Solidarity in markets -- Solidarity and hierarchy : institutional arrangements for the coordination of actions -- Votes and vetoes -- Mutual adjustment by debate and persuasion -- A method of institutional analysis -- Interorganizational arrangement and coordination at the policy level -- Multiorganizational arrangements and coordination : an application of institutional analysis -- Building coordination structures -- Associations and coordination -- Planning and organizational intelligence -- The games within the game : modeling politico-economic structures -- Control in public administration : plurality, selectivity and redundancy -- Performance evaluation -- Internal control in public administration -- When courts intervene : judicial control in a comparative institutional perspective -- Unwilling to bark, not able to bite? Theories and realities of parliamentary control -- Audit control -- Public administration and publics : control of bureaucratic performance by affected citizens -- Concepts of control over public bureaucracies: "comptrol" and "interpolable balance" -- Experience, theory and design.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographies and indexes.