The Difficulty of Protecting Merit in a Plural Society: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago

Review of Public Personnel Administration

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 74-90

  Bissessar, Ann Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

civil service reform; comparative public administration; new public management; Tobago; Trinidad

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248039433     PISSN: 0734371X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X05278181     Document Type: Article

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