Legal accountability in the service-based welfare state: Lessons from child welfare reform

Law and Social Inquiry

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 523-568

  Noonan, Kathleen G ^a   Sabel, Charles F ^b   Simon, William H ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 68749111256     PISSN: 08976546     EISSN: 17474469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-4469.2009.01157.x     Document Type: Article

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