'It's Not Like Never-the-Twain-Shall-Meet': Politician-Staff Relationship Structures in Local Government

Local Government Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 791-808

  Stocker, Nathan ^a   Thompson Fawcett, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

complementarity model; New Zealand; politician staff relationships; Politics administration dichotomy

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL RELATIONS; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84906055325     PISSN: 03003930     EISSN: 17439388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2014.887563     Document Type: Article

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