Restructuring Weberian bureaucracy: Comparing managerial reforms in Europe and the United States

Public Administration

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-94

  Gualmini, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM; BUREAUCRACY; CIVIL SERVICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; POLITICAL REFORM; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC SECTOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40449116993     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2007.00691.x     Document Type: Article

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