Competency and bureaucracy: Diffusion, application and appropriate response?

West European Politics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 131-152

  Lodge, Martin ^a   Hood, Christopher ^b  

^a Political Science and Public Policy   (United States)

^b ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC SERVICE;

GERMANY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0042745631     PISSN: 01402382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402380312331280618     Document Type: Article

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