Campaigning on expertise: How the OECD framed EU welfare and labour market policies - And why success could trigger failure

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Dostal, Jörg Michael ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; European Employment Strategy; European Union; Organization for Economic Co operation and Development; Organizational discourse; Welfare reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544343120     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501760410001694255     Document Type: Review

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