Multiple voices of modernization: Some methodological implications

Public Administration

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 743-756

  Enticott, Gareth ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL GOVERNMENT; METHODOLOGY; MODERNIZATION; SURVEY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4444260728     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-3298.2004.00417.x     Document Type: Article

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