Strategies for safeguarding public values in liberalized utility sectors

Public Administration

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 717-735

  de Bruijn, Hans ^a   Dicke, Willemijn ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIBERALIZATION; PRIVATIZATION; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 33747324853     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2006.00609.x     Document Type: Article

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