Public Sector Reforms: Changing Contours on an NPM Landscape

Financial Accountability and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-32

  Hyndman, Noel ^a   Liguori, Mariannunziata1 ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting reforms; Central Government; New Public Governance; New Public Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953720187     PISSN: 02674424     EISSN: 14680408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faam.12078     Document Type: Article

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