Culture: The missing variable in understanding social policy?

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 458-473

  Baldock, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Postmodernism; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE PROVISION;

EID: 0032763510     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9515.00163     Document Type: Article

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