The rhetoric of management control in Italian cities: Constructing new meanings of public action

Administration and Society

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 661-687

  Battistelli, Fabrizio ^a   Ricotta, Giuseppe ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Administrative reform; Discourse analysis; Effectiveness; Italian local governments (Italian cities); Italian public administration; Management control; Neo liberal ideology; New Public Management; Organizational change; Policy evaluation; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144314698     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399704270591     Document Type: Article

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