Fiscal Retrenchment in Southern Europe: Changing patterns of public management in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain

Public Management Review

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 129-148

  Di Mascio, Fabrizio ^a   Natalini, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

administrative reform; Cutback management; fiscal crisis; New Public Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914678294     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2013.790275     Document Type: Article

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