Public management reform and modernization: Trajectories of administrative change in Italy, France, Greece, Portugal and Spain

Public Management Reform and Modernization: Trajectories of Administrative Change in Italy, France, Greece, Portugal and Spain

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-316

  Ongaro, Edoardo ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781849802284     Document Type: Book

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