Performing to type? How state institutions matter in East Central Europe

Journal of Public Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-22

  Zubek, Radoslaw ^a   Goetz, Klaus H ^b  

^a HERTFORD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

courts; East Central Europe; executives; institutional theory; parliaments; public administration

Indexed keywords

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; NATION STATE; POST-COMMUNISM; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 77956299602     PISSN: 0143814X     EISSN: 14697815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X09990237     Document Type: Article

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