Culture in action: The 'Rotterdam approach' as modernization through tradition

Public Administration

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 513-527

  Noordegraaf, Mirko ^a   Jeroen Vermeulen, ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM; CULTURAL TRADITION; INNOVATION; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MODERNIZATION; POLICY REFORM;

NETHERLANDS; ROTTERDAM; SOUTH HOLLAND;

EID: 77954704812     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2009.01810.x     Document Type: Article

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