Trouble with champions: Local public sector-third sector partnerships and the future prospects for collaborative governance in the UK

Policy Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 613-630

  Chapman, Tony ^a   Brown, Judith ^a   Ford, Chris ^a   Baxter, Beth ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big society; Partnership; Professionalism; Public service delivery; Voluntary and community sector

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649343311     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: 14701006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2010.511524     Document Type: Article

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