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Public service efficiency : reframing the debate, Rhys Andrews and Tom Entwistle
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- Summary
- The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments across the world have introduced a series of business like practices {u2013} from performance management to public-private partnership {u2013} in the belief that these will increase the efficiency of their public services. However, both the debate about public service efficiency and the policies and practices introduced to advance it, have developed without a coherent account of what efficiency means in this context and how it should be realized. The predominance of a rather narrow definition of the term {u2013} very often focused on the ratio of inputs to outputs {u2013} has tended to polarise opinion either for or against efficiency agenda. Yet public service efficiency, more broadly conceived, is an inescapable fact of the public manager{u2019}s task environment; indeed in the past, the notion of efficiency was central to the emergence of the field of public administration. This book will recover public service efficiency from the relatively narrow terms of recent debates by examining theories and evidence relating to technical, allocative, distributive and dynamic efficiencies. In exploring the relationship between efficiency and democracy, this book will move current debates in public administration forward by reflecting on the trade-offs between the different dimensions of efficiency that public organizations confront. --Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 159 pages
- Contents
-
- Introduction
- What is public service efficiency?
- Technical efficiency
- Allocative efficiency
- Distributive efficiency
- Dynamic efficiency
- Managing for efficiency in a democracy
- Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780415501347
- Label
- Public service efficiency : reframing the debate
- Title
- Public service efficiency
- Title remainder
- reframing the debate
- Statement of responsibility
- Rhys Andrews and Tom Entwistle
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments across the world have introduced a series of business like practices {u2013} from performance management to public-private partnership {u2013} in the belief that these will increase the efficiency of their public services. However, both the debate about public service efficiency and the policies and practices introduced to advance it, have developed without a coherent account of what efficiency means in this context and how it should be realized. The predominance of a rather narrow definition of the term {u2013} very often focused on the ratio of inputs to outputs {u2013} has tended to polarise opinion either for or against efficiency agenda. Yet public service efficiency, more broadly conceived, is an inescapable fact of the public manager{u2019}s task environment; indeed in the past, the notion of efficiency was central to the emergence of the field of public administration. This book will recover public service efficiency from the relatively narrow terms of recent debates by examining theories and evidence relating to technical, allocative, distributive and dynamic efficiencies. In exploring the relationship between efficiency and democracy, this book will move current debates in public administration forward by reflecting on the trade-offs between the different dimensions of efficiency that public organizations confront. --Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Andrews, Rhys
- Dewey number
- 352.6/6
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- JF1601
- LC item number
- .A683 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Entwistle, Tom
- Series statement
- Routledge critical studies in public management
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Civil service
- Civil service
- Label
- Public service efficiency : reframing the debate, Rhys Andrews and Tom Entwistle
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-145) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction -- What is public service efficiency? -- Technical efficiency -- Allocative efficiency -- Distributive efficiency -- Dynamic efficiency -- Managing for efficiency in a democracy -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 802325797
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 159 pages
- Isbn
- 9780415501347
- Lccn
- 2013021039
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)802325797
- Label
- Public service efficiency : reframing the debate, Rhys Andrews and Tom Entwistle
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-145) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Introduction -- What is public service efficiency? -- Technical efficiency -- Allocative efficiency -- Distributive efficiency -- Dynamic efficiency -- Managing for efficiency in a democracy -- Conclusion
- Control code
- 802325797
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 159 pages
- Isbn
- 9780415501347
- Lccn
- 2013021039
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)802325797
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