Markets, experts and depoliticizing decisions on major infrastructure

Urban Research and Practice

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 158-168

  Newman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depoliticization; Distributed governance; Infrastructure planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011480572     PISSN: 17535069     EISSN: 17535077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17535060902979063     Document Type: Article

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