Audit culture and Illiberal governance: Universities and the politics of accountability

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 278-298

  Shore, Cris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accountability; Audit culture; Disciplinary technologies; Doxa; Governmentality; New public management; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749136619     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499608093815     Document Type: Review

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