'We are announcing your target': Reflections on performative language in the making of english housing policy

Local Government Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 597-614

  Millward, Liz ^a  

^a CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOUSING POLICY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 27644480021     PISSN: 03003930     EISSN: 17439388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03003930500293534     Document Type: Article

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