Powering over Puzzling? Downsizing the Public Sector during the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 464-478

  Zahariadis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

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EID: 84898759501     PISSN: 13876988     EISSN: 15725448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13876988.2013.861971     Document Type: Article

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