Research Catalog

Title

Guidance, control, and evaluation in the public sector : the Bielefeld interdisciplinary project / edited by Franz-Xaver Kaufmann, Giandomenico Majone, Vincent Ostrom with assistance of Wolfgang Wirth.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1986, ©1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver.
• Majone, Giandomenico.
• Ostrom, Vincent, 1919-2012.

Description

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

Series Statement

De Gruyter studies in organization ; 4

Uniform Title

De Gruyter studies in organization ; 4.

Subject

• Public administration
• Bureaucracy
• Policy sciences
• Policy sciences > addresses, essays, lectures
• Bureaucracy
• Policy sciences
• Public administration
• public sector
• bureaucracy
• public administration
• management
• efficiency
• decision making
• financial management
• auditing
• management audit
• evaluation technique
• profitability
• responsibility
• theory
• Administration publique
• Bureaucratie
• Techniques de décision en politique
• secteur public
• bureaucratie
• administration publique
• gestion
• efficacité
• prise de décision
• gestion financière
• vérification comptable
• contrôle de gestion
• technique d'évaluation
• rentabilité
• responsabilité
• théorie
• sector público
• burocracia
• administración pública
• administración
• eficiencia
• toma de decisiones
• dirección financiera
• auditoría
• auditaje administrativo
• técnica de evaluación
• rentabilidad
• responsabilidad moral
• teoría
• OECD countries
• pays de l'OCDE
• países de la OCDE

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• bibliographie.
• bibliografía.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0899250203
• 9780899250205
• 3110097079
• 9783110097078

LCCN

85016112

OCLC

• ocm12344602
• 12344602
• SCSB-1157706

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library