Explaining less accountability: The growth of local quangos

Public Administration

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-225

  Payne, Teresa ^a   Skelcher, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000196764     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9299.00057     Document Type: Article

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