Performance Blight and the Tyranny of Light?: Accountability in Advanced Performance Measurement Regimes

Accountable Governance: Problems and Promises

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 81-97

  Pollitt, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 85139660737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315706771-14     Document Type: Chapter

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