Institutional features of inter-municipal cooperation: Cooperative arrangements and their national contexts

Public Policy and Administration

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 121-144

  Hulst, J Rudie ^a   van Montfort, André J G M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

administrative organization and structures; administrative science; administrative theory; inter governmental relations; public administration; regional and local government

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857956894     PISSN: 09520767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0952076711403026     Document Type: Article

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