Coming to Terms with Accountability: Combining multiple forums and functions

Public Management Review

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1011-1036

  Willems, Tom ^a   Van Dooren, Wouter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Accountability; democracy; networks; partnerships; public governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868563284     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2012.662446     Document Type: Article

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