Switzerland: Growth of government, growth of centralisation

Economic Affairs

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 30-36

  Price, Victoria Curzon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZATION; DECENTRALIZATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 3042821837     PISSN: 02650665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2004.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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