Does public accountability work? An assessment tool

Public Administration

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 225-242

  Bovens, Mark ^a   Schillemans, Thomas ^a   Hart, Paul T ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; LEARNING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 40449086718     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2008.00716.x     Document Type: Article

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