Ireland

Partisan Appointees and Public Servants: An International Analysis of the Role of the Political Adviser

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 151-179

  Connaughton, Bernadette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

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