A case study of community collaboration: Georgia's experience with local governance and system reform

Journal of Community Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1-20

  Gillespie, Deanna M ^a   Nackerud, Larry ^b  

^a Service Strategies Technical Assistance Team   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Evaluation; Local governance; System reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997970300     PISSN: 10705422     EISSN: 15433706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J125v07n03_01     Document Type: Article

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