Residents, customers or citizens? Tracing the idea of youthful participation in the context of administrative reforms in Finnish public administration

Planning Theory and Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 311-327

  Bäcklund, Pia ^a   Kallio, Kirsi Pauliina ^a   Häkli, Jouni ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

administrative reforms; civic participation; rationality of public administration; youthful participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926249837     PISSN: 14649357     EISSN: 1470000X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2014.929726     Document Type: Article

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