Learning about policy learning. reflections on the european employment strategy

EIOP European Integration Online Papers

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Hartlapp, Miriam ^a  

^a WZB BERLIN SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Employment policy; European social model; Governance; Open coordination; Participation; Policy learning; Political science; Social policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 76749140319     PISSN: 10275193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1695/2009007     Document Type: Article

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