Post-Communist public administration in lithuania

Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries: Former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 135-160

  Pivoras, Saulius ^a  

^a VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

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EID: 85062061709     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315089300     Document Type: Chapter

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