The Political Economy of Public Administration: Institutional Choice in the Public Sector / Edition 1

by Murray J. Horn

Overview

This book uses a transactions cost approach to explain the key institutional characteristics across the public sector. It defines the distinctive governance, financing and employment arrangements that characterize the common forms of public sector organization: the regulatory commission, the executive tax-financed bureau and the state-owned enterprise. It suggests why these forms are used to perform different administrative functions, and why legislators often leave very important decisions to be resolved at the administrative level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521484367
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/24/1995
Series:	Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.09(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Basic theory and method: a transactions cost approach; 3. Regulatory institutions; 4. Bureaus and the budget; 5. Bureaus and the Civil Service; 6. Public versus private enterprise; 7. Public enterprise versus Public Bureau; 8. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography.

Editorial Reviews

"...casts interesting light on some key decisions at the heart of the modern administrative state." Choice

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