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Governance by Hybrid Advisory Committees – A Hallmark of Social Democracy? 混合咨询委员会治理——社会民主的标志?

Comparative social research Pub Date : 2021-01-29 DOI: 10.1108/S0195-631020210000035006

Eva Krick, Cathrine Holst

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Comparative social research Pub Date : 2021-01-29 DOI: 10.1108/s0195-631020210000035013

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Comparative social research Pub Date : 2021-01-29 DOI: 10.1108/s0195-631020210000035012

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Street-level Bureaucracy and Crosscutting Cleavages in Municipal Worlds 城市世界中的街头官僚主义和横切式分裂

Comparative social research Pub Date : 2018-09-27 DOI: 10.1108/S0195-631020180000033016

H. Vike

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Introduction: Bureaucracy in Transition 引言：转型中的官僚主义

Comparative social research Pub Date : 2018-09-27 DOI: 10.1108/S0195-631020180000033005

Haldor Byrkjeflot, F. Engelstad

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Bureaucracy and Society in Transition 官僚主义与转型中的社会

Comparative social research Pub Date : 2018-09-27 DOI: 10.1108/s0195-6310201833

Haldor Byrkjeflot

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Comparative social research Pub Date : 2018-09-27 DOI: 10.1108/s0195-631020180000033004

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Economists in Government Bureaucracies 政府官僚机构中的经济学家

Comparative social research Pub Date : 2018-09-27 DOI: 10.1108/S0195-631020180000033011

Johan Christensen

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Building State Infrastructural Capacities: Sweden and Greece 国家基础设施能力建设:瑞典和希腊

Comparative social research Pub Date : 2018-09-27 DOI: 10.1108/S0195-631020180000033007

A. Papakostas

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Multiple Shades of Grey: Opening the Black Box of Public Sector Executives’ Hybrid Role Identities 多重灰色阴影:打开公共部门高管混合角色身份的黑匣子

Comparative social research Pub Date : 2018-09-27 DOI: 10.1108/S0195-631020180000033012

S. Leixnering, Andrea Schikowitz, G. Hammerschmid, Renate E. Meyer

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