How can power discourses be changed? Contrasting the 'daughter deficit' policy of the Delhi government with Gandhi and King's transformational reframing

Critical Policy Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 290-308

  Sinha, Manisha ^a   Gasper, Des ^b  

^a International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam ^*

^b INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

'daughter deficit' in India; Gandhi Salt March; Martin Luther King; policy framing and re framing; policy tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858981342     PISSN: 19460171     EISSN: 1946018X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19460171003619717     Document Type: Article

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