Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens

by Le Grand, Julian

• ISBN13: 9780199298914
• ISBN10: 0199298912
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The long awaited paperback edition of this provocative and influential book has been updated to include a postscript containing a number of articles and critiques raising issues not addressed in the hardback edition. The author concludes this edition with an insightful afterword in which he addresses the points raised in the articles and book reviews, bringing the book up-to-date. Can we rely on the altruism of professionals or the public service ethos to deliver good quality health and education services? And how should patients, parents, and pupils behave-as grateful recipients or active consumers?

Author Biography

Julian Le Grand is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, a Founding Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences and a Senior Associate of the Kings Fund. He has acted as an advisor and consultant to the World Bank, the European Commission, the World Health Organisation, The Cabinet Office at No.10 Downing Street, HM Treasury, the UK Departments of Health and Social Security and the National Audit Office on health policy, welfare policy and social exclusion. He is the author, co-author or editor of twelve books and over ninety articles and book chapters on public policy, including health.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xvi
Introduction: Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy	1	(22)
PART I. THEORY: OF KNIGHTS AND KNAVES
Knights and Knaves in the Public Sector: What Do We Mean and What Do We Know?	23	(16)
Motivation and the Policy Context	39	(12)
A Theory of Public Service Motivation	51	(22)
PART II. THEORY: OF PAWNS AND QUEENS
Agency and Public Services	73	(12)
Agency and Public Finance	85	(10)
PART III. POLICY
Health Care	95	(12)
School Education	107	(13)
A Demogrant	120	(17)
Partnership Savings	137	(10)
Hypothecation	147	(16)
Epilogue: Doux Commerce Publique	163	(6)
Postscript	169	(40)
References	209	(16)
Index	225