The role of policy entrepreneurs in regional governance processes

Entrepreneurship in the Polis: Understanding Political Entrepreneurship

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 73-86

  Böcher, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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