{"product_id":"9781009704243","title":"Agency Theory in Public Administration","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Element advances an agency-theoretic approach to public administration through comparative analysis of the United States, China, and EU. It examines how principals – such as legislatures, executives, or ruling parties – can align the actions of diverse agents, including civil servants, public agencies, street-level bureaucrats, and contractors, with the public interest. Drawing on an extensive review of 146 key studies and AI-assisted analysis of 8,400 articles from Public Administration Review, Part I outlines fundamental concepts: goal divergence, moral hazard, adverse selection, and information asymmetry and traces its history, debates, and criticisms. These concepts are then applied to key themes in public administration – performance management, federalism\/decentralization, contracting, politics-administration, and institutional drift. Part II investigates how these problems manifest and tackled in the US, China, and Europe. Part III concludes with a synthesize of findings, debates, extensions, and future directions for theory and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eduardo Araral","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53134118322494,"sku":"9781009704243","price":2808.31,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/files\/9781009704243.jpg?v=1773324036","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781009704243","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}