Experimental policy research methodology: Exploring China's policy issues adversarially in laboratory

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 224-239

  Ya, Li ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Current Chinese context; Experimental policy research methodology; Meta synthesis support; Seminar gaming; Systems methodology

Indexed keywords

CHINESE CONTEXT; INTEREST GROUPS; META-SYNTHESIS; MULTI-PARADIGM; POLICY DEBATES; POLICY OPTIONS; POLICY RESEARCHES; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION;

DECISION MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY;

RESEARCH;

EID: 77449123587     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.1027     Document Type: Article

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