Approaches to risk and consumer policy in financial service regulation in the UK

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Lunt, Peter ^a   Livingstone, Sonia ^b   Kelay, Tanika ^c   Miller, Laura ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dialogue; Public awareness; Regulation; Rhetorical analysis; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 31844449473     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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