Bureaucracy and its limits: Accountability and rationality in higher education

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 683-695

  Murphy, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accountability; Bureaucracy; Habermas; Higher education; Rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350770947     PISSN: 01425692     EISSN: 14653346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01425690903235169     Document Type: Article

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