Synthesis in policy impact assessment

Evaluation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-150

  Radej, Bojan ^a  

^a Slovenian Evaluation Society   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

aggregation; complexity; impact assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954458043     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1356389011403450     Document Type: Article

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