Politics and numbers: The iron cage of governance indices

Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration: Concepts and Cases: Concepts and Cases

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 125-145

  Erkkilä, Tero ^a   Piironen, Ossi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Finnish Graduate School of Political Studies   (Finland)

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EID: 85076067770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315704531-16     Document Type: Chapter

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