Welfare and the discriminating public: Evaluating entitlement attitudes in post-communist Europe

Policy Studies Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 545-564

  Lipsmeyer, Christine S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POST-COMMUNISM; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE PROVISION;

EUROPE;

EID: 0345566205     PISSN: 0190292X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1541-0072.00042     Document Type: Article

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