Can fair be efficient? New labour, social liberalism and British economic policy

New Political Economy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-38

  Buckler, Steve ^a   Dolowitz, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; LIBERALISM; POLICY ANALYSIS; SOCIALISM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1942530909     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1356346042000190367     Document Type: Article

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