Petty bureaucracy and woolly-minded liberalism? The changing ethos of local government officers

Public Administration

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 639-656

  Pratchett, Lawrence ^a   Wingfield, Melvin ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001028771     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.1996.tb00888.x     Document Type: Article

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