Audit cultures: Neoliberal governmentality, socialist legacy, or technologies of governing?

American Ethnologist

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 275-289

  Kipnis, Andrew B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Audit cultures; China; Governmentality; Neoliberalism; Socialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749102076     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2008.00034.x     Document Type: Article

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