Reform styles of political and administrative elites in majoritarian and consensus democracies: Public management reforms in New Zealand and the Netherlands

Public Administration

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 951-974

  Yesilkagit, Kutsal ^a   de Vries, Jouke ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ELITE POLITICS; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; POLITICAL REFORM; REFORM PROCESS;

AUSTRALASIA; BENELUX; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 11044230644     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-3298.2004.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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