Quangos in Dutch government

Unbundled Government: A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 167-183

  Van Thiel, Sandra ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 2442426107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203507148     Document Type: Chapter

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