Emergent Accountability and Structuration Theory: Implications

Accountable Governance: Problems and Promises

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 269-281

  Yang, Kaifeng ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85139627165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315706771-30     Document Type: Chapter

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