The autonomy - Control balance in Flemish arm's length public agencies

Public Management Review

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-133

  Verschuere, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agencies; Autonomy; Control; Descriptive; Flanders (Belgium)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947289554     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719030601181266     Document Type: Article

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