This fully revised and updated edition of an established reference book provides in one volume the most comprehensive and detailed statistical guide available to the government and politics of the twenty-four countries in the OECD.

Political Data Handbook: OECD Countries (Comparative Politics)

History

Newton, Kenneth

MCKAY, David

Lane, Jan-Erik

Ancient Civilizations

Oxford University Press

The New Institutional Politics

The New Institutional Politics is a comparative study of the impact of political institutions upon outcomes, and covers some of the major themes in the new institutionalism. It looks at how various democratic institutions like Konkordanzdemokratie or corporatism promote better outcomes than Westminster institutions. The evaluation of the performance of political institutions covers the executive, the legislature and the judicial system. The book also looks at economic outcomes such as affluence and GDP growth as well as social ones like income distribution and quality of life. It examines the problems of institutional effects in democracies and dictatorships and provides analysis of some of the major models in political science. This is an exploration of how political institutions matter for political, economic and social outcomes. It estimates their impact in relation to other major factors such as culture and social structure. It is written for political scientists and graduates studying comparative politics.

The New Institutional Politics: Outcomes and Consequences

Politics & Social Sciences

Ersson, Svante

Politics & Government

Routledge

New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred as more and more public services are contracted out to private organisations, as the public sector itself grapples with 'internal markets'. Drawing on economics, organisational theory and poliltics, Jan-Erik Lane presents new public management from an analytical perspective. This book uses game theory and empirical studies in order to assess the pros and cons of new public management.

New Public Management: An Introduction

Democracy: A Comparative Approach

What is democracy? Under what conditions does it thrive? What are the consequences of democracy?This book aims to answer these questions and more by exploring different varieties of democracies around the world. It starts with definitions of democracy and then divides the concept into three dimensions, which provide a framework for the study of democracy in all its forms. These dimensions form the three main sections of the book:*constitutional democracy which explores political rights*participatory democracy which focuses on participation of citizens*egalitarian democracy which examines outcomes of democracy in terms of equality.Democracy concludes by surveying the findings of this empirical study and a discussion on the meanings and consequences of democracy in a globalizing world.

Exploring different varieties of democracies around the world, it starts with definitions of democracy, and then divides the concept into three dimensions, which provide a framework for the study of democracy in all its forms.

Public Administration & Public Management

A perspective on the public sector that presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. Governments in any society deliver a large number of services and goods to their populations. To get the job done, they need public management in order to steer resources – employees, money and laws – into policy outputs and outcomes. In well-ordered societies the teams who work for the state work under a rule-of-law framework, known as public administration. This book covers the key issues of: <ul>
<li>the principal-agent framework and the public sector </li> <li>public principals and their agents </li> <li>the economic reasons of government </li> <li>public organization, incentives and rationality in government </li> <li>the essence of public administration: legality and the rule of law </li> <li>public policy criteria: the Cambridge and Chicago positions </li> <li>public teams and private teams </li> <li>public firms </li> <li>public insurance </li> <li>public management policy </li>
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Public Administration &amp; Public Management is essential reading for those with professional and research interests in public administration and public management.

Public Administration & Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective

Comparative Politics (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics)

Starting from the principal-agent perspective, this book offers a new analysis of government. It interprets political institutions as devices designed to solve the omnipresent principal-agent game in politics. In other words how to select, instruct, monitor and evaluate political agents or elites so that they deliver in accordance with the needs and preferences of their principal: the population. This book explores whether there are any evolutionary mechanisms in politics which guide mankind towards the rule of law regime, domestically and globally. It combines a cross-sectional approach with a longitudinal one. Comparing the extent of the rule of law among states, using a set of data from 150 countries concerning political and social variables, the author seeks to understand why there is such a marked difference among states. Taking a state-centred perspective and looking at countries with a population larger than one million people during the post Second World War period, the book examines:    The stability and performance of states     The conditions for the rule of law regime: economic, social, cultural and institutional ones    The evolution of governments towards rule of law    Comparative Politics - The Principle-Agent Perspective will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics, government, political theory and law.

Comparative Politics: The Principal-Agent Perspective (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics)

Legal Theory & Systems

State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates public sector reform strategies such as New Public Management as well as incorporation, tendering and bidding, decentralization, team production and  privatization. This book argues that we should look upon the variety of models or approaches to public management or public administration as all belonging under "state management". The so-called "working state" in a well-ordered society involves government delivering services, paying for social security and respecting the rule of law. In this text, Jan-Erik Lane systematically examines the key approaches to the study of how government attempts to achieve these goals, discussing the pros and cons of alternative frameworks of analysis.  Each chapter discusses a different issue within state management that is integral to the broader debate, including:   Public regulation    The relationship between the law and the state    Combining ecology and policy making   Multi-level governance   The virtues and vices of public-private partnerships   Policy implementation    Presenting a clear overview of how the state operates when government sets out to deliver public services, and generating questions to encourage new research, State Management is a valuable new text for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in political science, public administration and public management.

State Management: An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management

State Management

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Political Data Handbook: OECD Countries (Comparative Politics)

The New Institutional Politics: Outcomes and Consequences

New Public Management: An Introduction

Democracy: A Comparative Approach

Democracy: A Comparative Approach

Public Administration & Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective

Public Administration & Public Management

Comparative Politics: The Principal-Agent Perspective (Routledge Research in Comparative Politics)

State Management: An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management

State Management