Adapting the agency concept: Variations within 'Next steps'

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 53-74

  Gains, Francesca ^a  

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