Competing Ontologies: A Primer for Public Administration

Public Administration Review

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 388-398

  Stout, Margaret ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84860385545     PISSN: 00333352     EISSN: 15406210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02530.x     Document Type: Note

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