Reform of the employment and welfare administrations — the challenges of co-coordinating diverse public organizations

International Review of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 389-408

  Christensen, Tom ^a   Lise Fimreite, Anne ^b   Lægreid, Per ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

control and autonomy; coordination; joined up government; multi level governance; post NPM reforms; transformative perspective; welfare administration; whole of government

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749152178     PISSN: 00208523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020852307081149     Document Type: Article

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