Rude Accountability: Informal Pressures on Frontline Bureaucrats in Bangladesh

Development and Change

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 907-928

  Hossain, Naomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; BUREAUCRACY; COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICAL POWER; PUBLIC SERVICE; STATE BUILDING;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 77957224962     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2010.01663.x     Document Type: Article

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