Principled agents? : the political economy of good government / Timothy Besley.

Mainstream policy economics now pays more attention to the delivery of policy outcomes and how incentives and institutional change shape the effectiveness of government. But should these issues be studied against a background of purely self-interested public servants? There is plenty of evidence tha...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Besley, Timothy
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:	Lindahl lectures.
Subjects:	Public administration. Government productivity. Agent (Philosophy) > Political aspects. Motivation (Psychology) > Political aspects. Policy sciences.