Agencies: How Governments Do Things Through Semi-Autonomous Organizations

✍ Scribed by Christopher Pollitt, Colin Talbot, Janice Caulfield, Amanda Smullen (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 312
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Agencies: The Context....Pages 3-29
Modern Agencies — The Ideal Type....Pages 30-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Finland....Pages 49-62
The Netherlands....Pages 63-78
Sweden....Pages 79-96
The United Kingdom....Pages 97-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Prisons....Pages 117-146
Meteorology....Pages 147-182
Forestry....Pages 183-215
Social Security....Pages 216-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Conclusions....Pages 245-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-304

✦ Subjects

Public Policy; Political Science; Political Communication

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