Special advisers and the transmission of ideas from the policy primeval soup

Policy and politics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 485-498

  Gains, Francesca ^a   Stoker, Gerry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Policy advice; Policy making; Special advisers; Whitehall

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; NEOLIBERALISM; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 84856052709     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: 14708442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/030557310X550169     Document Type: Article

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