Transparency: Seeing, counting and experiencing the system

Anthropologica

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-273

  Stan, Sabina ^a  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Knowledge; Networks; Public policy; Public services systems; Space time; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748818751     PISSN: 00035459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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