Social investment: The discourse and the dimensions of change

Modernising the Welfare State: The Blair Legacy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 125-142

  Dobrowolsky, Alexandra ^a   Lister, Ruth ^b  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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