Evaluation of legislation: Skating on thin ice

Evaluation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 279-293

  Bussmann, Werner ^a  

^a Federal Office of Justice   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Causal attribution; Evaluation methodology; Legislation; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954835411     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389010370252     Document Type: Article

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