Decentralization and educational reform: What accounts for a decoupling between policy purpose and practice? Evidence from Buenos Aires, Argentina

Public Administration and Management

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 137-165

  Astiz, M Fernanda ^a  

^a CANISIUS COLLEGE   (United States)

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