Anticipatory-Conjectural Policy Problems: A Case Study of the Avian Influenza

Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 147-184

  DeLeo, Rob A ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agenda setting; focusing events; influenza; problem definition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956110949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19444079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-4079.1002     Document Type: Article

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