"So many tiers, so many agendas, so many pots of money": The challenge of English regionalization for voluntary and community organizations

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 525-540

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

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capacity; Funding; Regional government; Voluntary sector

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; REGIONAL POLICY; REGIONALIZATION; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 4444347148     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2004.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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