Localities, leadership and neoliberalization: conflicting discourses, competing practices

Critical Policy Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 391-413

  Geddes, Mike ^a   Sullivan, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

comparative analysis; local governance; local leadership; neoliberalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855973353     PISSN: 19460171     EISSN: 1946018X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2011.628003     Document Type: Article

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