Policy punctuations in Danish local budgeting

Public Administration

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 931-950

  Mortensen, Peter B ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLICY STRATEGY;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 29144449748     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-3298.2005.00484.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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