Analysis of rural development policy networks in Greece: Is LEADER really different?

Land Use Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 663-673

  Papadopoulou, Eleni ^a   Hasanagas, Nikolas ^b   Harvey, David ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IPRD; LEADER; Power; Quantitative network analysis; Rural development policy

Indexed keywords

POLICY ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL POLICY;

GREECE;

EID: 79957923571     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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