How do ideas matter?: Mental models and attention in German pension politics

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 252-279

  Jacobs, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Germany; Ideas; Pensions; Policymaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149269258     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: 15523829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414008325283     Document Type: Article

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