The relationship between politics and administration: The importance of contingency factors, formal structure, demography, and time

Governance

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 303-323

  Jacobsen, Dag Ingvar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

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EID: 33645122704     PISSN: 09521895     EISSN: 14680491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2006.00316.x     Document Type: Review

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