Mixing God's work and the public business: A framework for the analysis of faith-based service delivery

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-89

  Hula, Richard ^a   Jackson Elmoore, Cynthia ^a   Reese, Laura ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Faith based; Nonprofit; Regime theory; Urban goverance

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICAL PROCESS; PUBLIC SERVICE; URBAN POLICY;

EID: 33846344330     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2007.00268.x     Document Type: Article

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