Who takes the hit? Ministerial advisers and the distribution of welfare state cuts

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 294-310

  Dahlström, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Ministerial advisors; New politics; Power recourse theory; Retrenchment; Welfare state

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951796037     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2011.544513     Document Type: Article

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