The Logic of Policy Change after Crisis: Proximity and Subsystem Interaction

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1-32

  Nohrstedt, Daniel ^a   Weible, Christopher M ^b  

^a SWEDISH NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

crisis; policy change; policy subsystems

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651408430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-4079.1035     Document Type: Article

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