Governing by Contract: Challenges and Opportunities for Public Managers

摘要: Is the public getting a good deal when government contracts out delivery of goods and services? Phillip Cooper attempts to get at heart this question by exploring what happens sector organizations - federal, state local levels form working relationships with other agencies, communities, non-profit private firms through contracts. Rather than focus on ongoing debate over privatization, book emphasizes tools managers need form, operate, terminate or transform these amidst complex web intergovernmental relations. frames issues contract management showing how are caught in between governance authority contract. By looking cases ranging from Baltimore schools contracting senior citizen programs Kansas, he offers practical information students practitioners theoretical context for their work. At every turn, author avoids bogging readers down technical jargon. Instead sheds light crucial part any manager's job lively case material no-nonsense guidance making most taxpayer dollars.