Policy alienation of public professionals: Application in a new public management context

Public Management Review

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 685-706

  Tummers, Lars ^a   Bekkers, Victor ^a   Steijn, Bram ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discretion; New public management; Policy alienation; Policy implementation; Public professionals

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949493168     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719030902798230     Document Type: Article

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