Public Priority Setting: Rules and Costs

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Peter B. Boorsma, Kees Aarts, Albert E. Steenge

   Pages 1-17

3. Transaction Cost Economics and Public Administration

   • Oliver E. Williamson

   Pages 19-37

4. Setting Priorities: The IMF and World Bank and Structural Adjustment Programmes

   • Niels Hermes, Ard Schilder

   Pages 39-60

5. The Effects of Firm- and Relation-Specific Characteristics on Quality of Supplier Relationships

   • Gjalt de Jong, Bart Nooteboom, Robert W. Vossen

   Pages 61-84

6. Marshall and the Quest for a New Paradigm

   • Piet de Vries

   Pages 85-101

7. Technology and Lifestyle as Central Concepts for Global Scenarios

   • F. Duchin

   Pages 103-119

8. On Background Principles for Environmental Policy: “Polluter Pays”, “User Pays” or “Victim Pays”?

   • Albert E. Steenge

   Pages 121-137

9. Reconciling Economy with Ecology: Environmental Valuation from the Point of View of Sustainability

   • Martin O’connor

   Pages 139-161

10. Contingent Valuation, Sustainability and a Green National Income

    • Anne van der Veen

    Pages 163-179

11. The Effects of Policy Making on the Design of Economic Policy Instruments: Politics as Usual

    • Hans Th. A. Bressers, Dave Huitema

    Pages 181-200

12. Setting Priorities in Dutch Legislative Policy

    • Bärbel Dorbeck-Jung

    Pages 201-216

13. Do Local Authorities Opt for Covenants?

    • Eric Helder

    Pages 217-238

14. Communicative Steering and Regulation: Shifting Actors, Objectives and Priorities

    • Igno Pröpper

    Pages 239-255

15. Political-Administrative Relations and Separation of Powers

    • Rik Reussing

    Pages 257-274

16. Effects of Issue Priorities in the News on Voting Preferences; The 1994 Election Campaign in the Netherlands

    • Jan Kleinnijenhuis, Jan A. De Ridder

    Pages 275-305

17. The Will of Politicians and the Unwillingness of the People

    • Jacques Thomassen

    Pages 307-322

18. Back Matter

    Pages 323-338

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At present we observe a decreasing role for the state in many areas where it used to be prominent. Amidst severe budgetary cuts, the state and its organs are confronted with ever louder calls for efficiency in public office (`value for money') and public performance. Simultaneously we see in many democratic welfare states the rise of new institutional forms and social organizations responding to new public priorities. Phenomena like privatization and de-regulation, new forms of regulation and self-regulation, and the rise of special issue groups are an expression of this.
This book seeks to provide order in some of today's issues and to offer analysis and explanation for selected topics. The book opens with contributions on the importance of concepts of present-day institutional economics interpreting modern governmental behavior and organization. Subsequent chapters deal with new developments in various fields such as environmental management and conservation, political legitimacy, or the new roles for covenants.
Audience: This volume will be of interest for scholars in the fields of public service, government studies and adjacent branches of economics, political science and law.

• Environmental Management
• Geschäftsordnung
• Policy
• Political Science
• Politics
• organization
• sustainability

• Faculty of Public Administration and Public Policy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

  Peter B. Boorsma, Kees Aarts, Albert E. Steenge

Policies and ethics