Is public management different from private sector management? -- Formal organisation models : the relevance of informal organisation -- Asymmetric information models : the principal-agent perspective -- Policy models : how rational is public management? -- Implementation models : bringing outcomes into public management and policy -- Independent agencies : maximising efficiency? -- Policy network models : the virtues and vices of public-private partnerships -- Marketization models : how much buying and selling in government? -- Incorporation as a strategy : transforming the public enterprises -- Principals and agents : public regulation -- Multi-level governance : bringing in the two regional dimensions -- Politics and jurisprudence : law and the state -- Ecology and policy : how to combine? -- The developmental state : from the third world to the first world -- The comparative challenge : are there different state models? -- Public management as the encompassing framework for state management.