Post-contractual lock-in and the UK Private Finance Initiative (PFI): The cases of national savings and investments and the Lord Chancellor's Department

Public Administration

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-88

  Lonsdale, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL PROVISION; INVESTMENT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 17044411673     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-3298.2005.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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