Towards a professional civil service in post-transition Romania

Public Administration and Development

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 274-288

  Lee, Charlotte ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative reform; Bureaucracy; New democracy; Professionalisation; Transition

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM; BUREAUCRACY; CIVIL SERVICE; COMMUNISM; DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION; EUROPEAN UNION; MARKET TRANSITION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349327505     PISSN: 02712075     EISSN: 1099162X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pad.539     Document Type: Article

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