We're onto you: A critical examination of the Department for Work and Pensions' 'Targeting Benefit Fraud' campaign

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 231-252

  Connor, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse; Imagery; Language; New Labour; Welfare

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; STATE; WELFARE PROVISION;

EID: 34247249291     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018306075712     Document Type: Article

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