Political actors and the modernisation of care policies in Britain and Germany

Care and Social Integration in European Societies

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 281-305

  Meyer, Traute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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