Recycling bins, garbage cans or think tanks? Three myths regarding policy analysis institutes

Public Administration

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 259-278

  Stone, Diane ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UK ESRC Non Governmental Public Action Programme   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLICY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL POLICY;

EID: 34249682595     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2007.00649.x     Document Type: Article

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