The Public Sector: Concepts, Models and Approaches

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SAGE, Feb 28, 2000 - Political Science - 357 pages
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.

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Contents

Public Institutions and Interests
1
Demarcation of the Public Sector
14
Concepts of Bureaucracy
49
Public Policy Models
72
Implementation Models
97
Models of Public Regulation
118
The Logic of Public Sector Reform
143
Public Management Leadership and Privatization
160
The New Institutionalism
217
Efficiency Effectiveness and Evaluation
241
Institutions and Efficiency in the Public Sector
256
Ethics and Normative Policy Models
269
The Basic Ideas
304
What Are the Policy Sciences?
319
Bibliography
330
Index
348

The Management State versus the Administrative State
188
The Public Choice Approach
201

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About the author (2000)

Jan-Erik Lane is Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva.

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