Performance Budgeting: Incentives and Social Waste from Window Dressing

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 344-358

  Bischoff, Ivo ^a   Blaeschke, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

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EID: 84964598986     PISSN: 10531858     EISSN: 14779803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muv013     Document Type: Article

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