Looking for governance configurations of European welfare states

Journal of European Social Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 173-184

  Ahonen, Pertti ^a   Hyyryläinen, Esa ^b   Salminen, Ari ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE PROVISION;

EID: 33645551254     PISSN: 09589287     EISSN: 14617269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0958928706062505     Document Type: Article

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