Motivation, agency and public policy : of knights and knaves, pawns and queens / Julian Le Grand.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Welfare state.

Public administration.

Agent (Philosophy)

Motivation (Psychology)

Public policy (Law)

Public administration.

Great Britain -- Social policy.

1. Introduction: motivation, agency, and public policy

Part I. Theory of knights and knaves

2. Knights and knaves in the publc sector: what do we mean and what do we know?

3. Motivation and the policy context

4. A theory of public service motivation

Part II. Theory: of pawns and queens

5. Agency and public services

6. Agency and public finance

Part III. Policy

7. Health care

8. School education

9. A demogrant

10. Partnership savings

11. Hypothecation

Epilogue: Doux commerce publique.

Includes index.

0199266999

xii, 191 p. : figures.