Policy benchmarking: A tool of democracy or a tool of authoritarianism?

Benchmarking

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 497-516

  Papaioannou, Theodoros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authority; Benchmarking; Democracy; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547262653     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770710761898     Document Type: Article

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