{"product_id":"agency-theory-in-public-administration-9781009704205","title":"Agency Theory in Public Administration","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eduardo Araral\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Organizational Behavior\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Element advances an agency-theoretic approach to public administration through comparative analysis of the United States, China, and EU. It examines how principals - such as legislatures, executives, or ruling parties - can align the actions of diverse agents, including civil servants, public agencies, street-level bureaucrats, and contractors, with the public interest. Drawing on an extensive review of 146 key studies and AI-assisted analysis of 8,400 articles from Public Administration Review, Part I outlines fundamental concepts: goal divergence, moral hazard, adverse selection, and information asymmetry and traces its history, debates, and criticisms. These concepts are then applied to key themes in public administration - performance management, federalism\/decentralization, contracting, politics-administration, and institutional drift. Part II investigates how these problems manifest and tackled in the US, China, and Europe. Part III concludes with a synthesis of findings, debates, extensions, and future directions for theory and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892089471127,"sku":"9781009704205","price":2296.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781009704205.webp?v=1781185707","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/agency-theory-in-public-administration-9781009704205","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}