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State Responses to the Fiscal Crisis in Britain, Germany and the Netherlands

Walter Kickert Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands E-mail: kickert@commat;fsw.eur.nl
Pages 299-309 | Published online: 16 Apr 2012

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