Departmental Restructuring under New Labour

Political Quarterly

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 425-434

  Heppell, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Joined up government; Labour party; Machinery of government; New Labour; Whitehall reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052015390     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2011.02207.x     Document Type: Article

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