Agencies and non-departmental public bodies: The hard and soft lenses of agencification theory

Public Management Review

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 615-635

  Wettenhall, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Administrative organization; Agencification theory; Executive agencies; Non departmental public bodies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745685350     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719030500362827     Document Type: Article

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