Contracts as reinvented institutions in the public sector
Subtitle: a cross-cultural comparison
By: Carsten Greve and Niels Ejersbo
Contributors: Ejersbo, Niels
Publisher: Praeger; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780313053603
Subjects: Cross-cultural studies; Public contracts; Public Affairs & Administration; Contracting out; POLITICAL SCIENCE
Description: Contracting has become one of the tools that governments use to make their services more efficient and effective. This work studies the positives and negatives involved with the multiple elements of contracting. It covers topics such as: contracting on the public agenda; limits of the "New Contractualism"; the elements of contracts; and more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-146) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Contracting on the policy agenda; title: Theories of contracts; title: Contractual governance; title: Policy change and learning in contracting out; title: Contractual governance in the United States and Scandinavia; title: Case studies of contractual governance : Dane County, Wisconsin, and Odense, Denmark; title: Performance-based contracting in local government; title: When contractual governance fails; title: Conclusion: contractual governance in a cross-cultural perspective.