Widgets or Watchdogs?: Conceptual explorations in social accountability

Public Management Review

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-162

  Joshi, Anuradha ^a   Houtzager, Peter P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developing countries; governance; service delivery; social accountability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859507745     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2012.657837     Document Type: Article

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