Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each element by the intellectual source it comes from.
Groups: New institutional economics · Managerialism
- Principal-agent contracts with explicit incentives
- Freeing managers to manage
- Steering rather than rowing
- Contestability and competition between providers
- Precise specification of outputs
- Management as a general, transferable skill
Hints
- One source wants tight specification; the other wants managerial freedom.
- Anything about contracts or incentives is the economic strand.
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New institutional economics: Contestability and competition between providers, Principal-agent contracts with explicit incentives, Precise specification of outputs
Managerialism: Freeing managers to manage, Management as a general, transferable skill, Steering rather than rowing
Why
The two columns are the internal contradiction of the reform era. Ask a manager to be freed from rules and simultaneously held to a precise contract and you produce exactly the experience most public managers report, more autonomy on paper and more measurement in practice.
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