Subject(s): Public administration. -- Agency (Law) -- Public and private sectors: Public administration or public management, policy policy, citizen's characters, Osborne's trilogy -- principal-agent framework and public sector: Principal-agent framework population, principle agent approach and public sector, management, public organization and principal agent model, public management and politics, administration separation -- Public principles and their agents : Public finance to public management, social priorities as incentives, fundamental agency problem in public sector, budgeting -- Economic reasons for government : Public goods and merit goods, public necessity, government as employees, money and law, public sector -- public organization, incentives and rationality in government : Rational public administration, policy making, micro rationality v/s macro rationality, state, public organization as implementation of policy, political organization, role of NGOs -- Essence of public administration- legality ad rule of law : Thin legal concept of legal-rational authority, legitimacy, legality, rights, separation of power, publicity and redress, legal review, hayek argument about law and rule of law, democracy and rule of law, growing demand for rule of law, public administration and reregulation -- Public policy criteria- Cambridge and Chicago position : Chicago revolution, world according to Chicago gospel, law and markets, Chicago school implications, world according to Cambridge gospel -- Public terms are different from private teams : Macro view of public organization, country specific models of public organization, public teams, micro perspective on public organization, limits of new managerialism, public organization and public teams -- Public firms : Public enterprise, economy, behavioral consequences of new system -- Public insurance : Pension system, sustainability, economic dependency ration, welfare to workfare, social security and social policy -- What if public management policy : NPM- country specific models or experiments, post modern public organization, public management reform, public management function -- Contracting in public sector : State and transaction costs, reasonable and unreasonable reform attempts