Strengthening subnational administration in Afghanistan: Technical reform or state-building?

Public Administration and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-48

  Lister, Sarah ^a   Wilder, Andrew ^a  

^a Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit   (Afghanistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; POLITICAL POWER; POLITICAL PROCESS; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; STATE BUILDING;

AFGHANISTAN; ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 14644406813     PISSN: 02712075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pad.346     Document Type: Article

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