The problem of policy problems

Designing Government: From Instruments to Governance

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 77-105

  Peters, B Guy ^a   Hoornbeek, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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