Sharing God's love or meeting government goals? Local churches and public policy implementation

Policy and Politics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 413-432

  Cairns, Ben ^a   Harris, Margaret ^a   Hutchison, Romayne ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Churches; Ethnicity; Faith organisations; Policy and implementation; Public services

Indexed keywords

CHURCH ROLE; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; PUBLIC SERVICE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547725782     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/030557307781571614     Document Type: Article

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