Marketization via Compensation: Health Care and the Politics of the Right in Advanced Industrialized Nations

British Journal of Political Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 907-926

  Jensen, Carsten ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 79955485016     PISSN: 00071234     EISSN: 14692112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007123411000159     Document Type: Article

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