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The Third Edition of this successful textbook introduces students to the major concepts, models, and approaches surrounding the public sector. Now fully updated to include coverage of the New Public Management (NPM), The Public Sector is the most comprehensive textbook on theories of public policy and public administration. The Public Sector is introduced within a three-part framework: public resource allocation, redistribution and regulation. Jan-Erik Lane explains the basic concepts of each of these broad areas, and goes on to examine their consequences for various approaches to the making and implementation of public policy. The book explores models of management, effectiveness and
The Public Choice Approach
The Public Choice Approach
We have referred to the public choice framework several times in the earlier chapters. Here, we look more closely at the foundation of the public choice approach, at its methodological assumptions often appear dauntingly problematic. Would the conduct of social inquiry along its lines imply special methodological difficulties?
The distinction between the is and the ought may be employed as a demarcation line between two types of social science theories: strictly theoretical-empirical ones on the one hand and normative ones on the other. Although not all theories fall neatly within one or the other of these categories, the distinction may be used as a tool for pointing out implicit or explicit normative elements in theories which claim to be ...
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