Evaluating administrative modernization in German local governments: Success or failure of the "New Steering Model"?

Public Administration Review

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 851-863

  Kuhlmann, Sabine ^a   Bogumil, Jörg ^b   Grohs, Stephan ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

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EID: 49349091121     PISSN: 00333352     EISSN: 15406210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.00927.x     Document Type: Review

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