Management, markets and democracy: Australian local government reform in the 1990s

Local Government Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 34-57

  Marshall, Neil ^a   Witherby, Angus ^a   Dollery, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL CHANGE; REFORM PROCESS;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 0032728368     PISSN: 03003930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03003939908433956     Document Type: Article

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