Combining market and bureaucratic control in education: An answer to market and bureaucratic failure?

Comparative Education

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 271-282

  Vandenberghe, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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EID: 0001621894     PISSN: 03050068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03050069927829     Document Type: Article

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