Policies in the polder: How institutions mediate between norms and practices of rural governance

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 299-317

  Boonstra, Wiebren Johannes ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RURAL POLICY;

EID: 33750106914     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2006.00419.x     Document Type: Article

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