Issues in reconceptualizing public policy from the perspective of complexity theory

E:CO Emergence: Complexity and Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-60

  Morçöl, Göktuǧ ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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