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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 October 2009
      24 November 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511528163
      9780521484367
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511528163
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 276 Pages
      • Series:
      Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
      Subjects:
      Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Series:
    Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    Subjects:
    Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    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.

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

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