The Tools of Government A Guide to the New Governance,9780195136654

The Tools of Government A Guide to the New Governance

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ISBN13: 9780195136654
ISBN10: 0195136659
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-02-22
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This important book is a comprehensive, practical handbook for governingin an age of privatization, deregulation, and free market politics.Featuring original essays by leading political scientists, economists, andother experts, the Handbook is a guide to the principles and practices of publicadministration at a time when governments no longer provide many services--butarrange for others to do so. The essays present, anaylze, and apply suchgoverning tools as vouchers, cooperative arrangements, tax subsidies,grants-in-aid, and contracting to a host of real-world issues.Designed for scholars in many fields, managers, program officers, and serviceproviders, the Handbook is a much-need source of critical, practicalknowledge.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Directory of Participants ix
The New Governance and the Tools of Public Action: An Introduction
1(47)
Lester M. Salamon
Direct Government
48(32)
Christopher K. Leman
Government Corporations and Government-Sponsored Enterprises
80(37)
Thomas H. Stanton
Ronald C. Moe
Economic Regulation
117(39)
Lester M. Salamon
Social Regulation
156(30)
Peter J. May
Government Insurance
186(31)
Ron J. Feldman
Public Information
217(38)
Janet A. Weiss
Corrective Taxes, Charges, and Tradable Permits
255(27)
Joseph J. Cordes
Contracting
282(37)
Steven J. Kelman
Purchase-of-Service Contracting
319(21)
Ruth Hoogland DeHoog
Lester M. Salamon
Grants
340(41)
David R. Beam
Timothy J. Conlan
Loans and Loan Guarantees
381(29)
Thomas H. Stanton
Tax Expenditures
410(35)
Christopher Howard
Vouchers
445(21)
C. Eugene Steuerle
Eric C. Twombly
Tort Liability
466(24)
Peter H. Schuck
Managing Indirect Government
490(21)
Donald F. Kettl
Financial Accountability in Indirect Government
511(12)
John J. Lordan
Accountability Challenges of Third-Party Government
523(29)
Paul L. Posner
The Politics of Tool Choice
552(13)
B. Guy Peters
Policy Tools and Democracy
565(20)
Steven Rathgeb Smith
Helen Ingram
European Experience with Tools of Government
585(15)
Arthur B. Ringeling
The Tools Approach and the New Governance: Conclusion and Implications
600(11)
Lester M. Salamon
Bibliography 611(36)
Index 647

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