The Oxford handbook of pensions and retirement income

"The Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income" is the only comprehensive review available of the latest research, policy-related tools, analytical methods and techniques, and major theoretical frameworks and principles of pension and retirement income. Featuring over forty contributions from leading academic and professional experts ...

Motivation, agency, and public policy

of knights and knaves, pawns and queens

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? This book provides new answers to these questions - a milestone ...

Reforming early retirement in the USA, Europe, and Japan

Since the 1970s, early exit from work has become a major challenge in modern welfare states. Governments, employers, and unions alike once thought of early retirement as a peaceful solution to the economic problems of mass unemployment and industrial restructuring. Today, governments and international organizations ...

Democratic constitutional design and public policy

analysis and evidence

Leading scholars in rational choice analysis present the public choice, new institutionalist, and new political economy perspectives on the political and economic effects of constitutional design and review the accumulating empirical evidence. The variety of constitutional designs found in democratic governments has important effects on ...

The public sector value model

a new model for achieving high performance in the public service organizations

This book provides a new approach to understanding and improving performance and public value. This book presents the Public Service Value Model - an innovative, rigorous approach to defining public outcomes and quantifying results - to help readers understand and improve public service delivery. Filled with in-depth ...

Restructuring retirement risks

This book posits that retirement security is the central policy concern of our time. A generation of 'Baby Boomers' is on the verge of retirement, yet pension systems confront crushing challenges, and governments often appear confused about which direction they should move in. Contributors to ...

New foundations of cost-benefit analysis

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has been an important policy tool of government since the 1980s, when the Reagan administration ordered that all major new regulations be subjected to a rigorous test of whether their projected benefits would outweight their costs. Not surprisingly, CBA has been criticized ...

The dynamics of public policy

theory and evidence

In The Dynamics of Public Policy, Adrian Kay sets out the crucial methodological, theoretical and empirical implications of two important trends in the social sciences: a frequently expressed ambition for analysis of 'movies not stills' and the regular observation that policy, politics and governance is ...

Public service performance

perspectives on measurement and management

The performance of governments around the globe is constantly in the spotlight, whether as a celebration or indictment of their activities. Providing evidence on strategies to improve the performance of public agencies is therefore essential to the practice of public management. This important contribution to ...

Déficit público y contabilidad nacional

el pacto de estabilidad y crecimiento

El objetivo ultimo que se pretende alcanzar con este trabajo es el estudio del pacto de estabilidad y crecimiento (PEC) desde la perspectiva de sus relaciones con la contabilidad nacional.

The vote motive

This highly accessible monograph, first published in 1976, applies economic analysis to the workings of democratic politics, explaining the preponderance of rent-seeking, log-rolling and over-government. This new edition, with a new foreword by Professor Tullock and commentaries by leading political economists, is issued 30 years ...

Managing performance in the public sector

'A clear set of principles, but not instructions, for how to use performance measurement effectively. "Managing Performance in the Public Sector" should certainly be on the reading list of senior policy makers at national and organizational level.' - "Local Government Studies"

Política y financiación pública de la música

países iberoamericanos en el contexto internacional. (Antecedentes, instituciones y experiencias)

La presente obra está dedicada al estudio de las diversas instituciones y experiencias nacionales de los países iberoamericanos a través de las cuales se han llevado a cabo, desde mediados del siglo XX y hasta la actualidad, tanto las políticas públicas como la financiación gubernamental ...

¿La gestión privada en la Administración Pública?

el caso de los servicios sanitarios hospitalarios de Cataluña

INDICE: Presentación del objeto de estudio. Las transformaciones de la administración. El contexto sociopolítico de las transformaciones de las administraciones públicas. ¿Un nuevo modelo de gestión para la administración pública?:propuestas y críticas. Los programas de modernización de la Generalitat de Cataluña. Los servicios sanitarios ...

La financiación del gasto sanitario desde la perspectiva de la experiencia comparada

Dir. Juan Manuel Cabsés Hita. Suficiencia, equidad y autonomía son los tres objetivos básicos del modelo de financiación territorial vigente desde 2002, que integra por primera vez en uno solo los subsistemas de servicios comunes, sanitarios y de servicios sociales. Este modelo, cuya arquitectura añade ...

Rethinking the Welfare State

the prospects for government by voucher

Managing change and innovation in public service organizations

Presupuestos de la Seguridad Social

cifras y datos ejercicio 2005

Externalización de la gestión y la financiación del sector público en España

The rent-seeking society