Why do public policies fail so often? exploring health policy-making as an imaginary and symbolic construction

Organization

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 703-720

  Fotaki, Marianna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fantasy; health policy; patient choice; social defences; socio symbolic order; the NHS

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958172133     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508410366321     Document Type: Article

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