Implementing health and social care policy - England and Scotland compared

Policy Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 591-611

  Forbes, Tom ^a   Evans, Debbie ^a   Scott, Niccola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decentralisation; Devolution; England; Health and social care; Learned implementation; Partnership working; Policy implementation; Possibility spaces; Scotland; Self organising systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649349607     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: 14701006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01442871003615968     Document Type: Article

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