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Motivation, agency, and public policy : of knights and knaves, pawns and queens
- Title
- Motivation, agency, and public policy : of knights and knaves, pawns and queens / Julian Le Grand.
- Author
- Le Grand, Julian.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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- Description
- xii, 191 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Can we rely on the altruism of professionals or the public service ethos to deliver good quality health and education services? And how should National Health Service Patients, and state school pupils and their parents behave - as grateful recipients or as active consumers? This book provides new answers to these questions - a milestone in the analysis and development of public policy from one of the leading thinkers in the field. It provides a new perspective on policy design, emphasising the importance of analysing the motivation of professionals and others who work within the public sector, and both their and public service beneficiaries' capacity for agency or independent action. It argues that the conventional assumption that public sector professionals are public-spirited altruists or 'knights' is misplaced; but so is the alternative that they are all, in David Hume's terminology, 'knaves' or self-interested egoists. We also must not assume that individual citizens are passive recipients of public services (Pawns); but nor can they be untrammelled sovereigns with unrestricted choices over services and resources (queens). Instead, policies must be designed so as to give the proper balance of motivation and agency"--Jacket.
- Subject
- Welfare state
- Public administration
- Agent (Philosophy)
- Motivation (Psychology)
- Public health
- Medical policy
- Public Policy
- Public Health
- Motivation
- Health Policy
- public health
- 83.13 welfare economics
- 71.80 social policy: general
- Etat providence
- Politique sociale
- Secteur public
- Administration publique
- Motivations
- Théorie politique
- Public health
- Medical policy
- Public administration
- Social policy
- Welfare state
- Dienstleistung
- Öffentlicher Dienst
- Agency-Theorie
- Öffentlicher Sektor
- Öffentliche Dienstleistung
- Openbare dienstverlening
- Verzorgingsstaat
- Overheidsbeleid
- Collectieve voorzieningen
- État providence
- Agent (philosophie)
- Motivation (psychologie)
- Fonction publique > Grande-Bretagne
- Great Britain > Social policy
- Royaume-Uni
- Great Britain
- Grande-Bretagne > Politique sociale
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-182) and index.
- Contents
- Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy -- Knights and Knaves in the Public Sector: What do we Mean and What do we Know? -- Motivation and the Public Context -- Knight and Knave: A Theory of Public Service Motivation -- Agency and Public Services -- Health Care -- School Education -- A Demogrant -- Partnership Savings -- Hypothecation -- Epilogue: Doux Commerce Publique.
- ISBN
- 0199266999
- 9780199266999
- 0199298912
- 9780199298914
- LCCN
- 2004297406
- OCLC
- ocm52193481
- 52193481
- SCSB-9016320
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library