The Agency idea: Sometimes old, sometimes new, sometimes borrowed, sometimes untrue

Unbundled Government: A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3-21

  Talbot, Colin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Nottingham Cancer Centre   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84906525771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203507148     Document Type: Chapter

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