Ideas and institutional change in social security: Conversion, layering, and policy drift

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-38

  Béland, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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EID: 33846320075     PISSN: 00384941     EISSN: 15406237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2007.00444.x     Document Type: Review

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