Policy assessment: The state of the art

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-33

  Adelle, Camilla ^a   Weiland, Sabine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

better regulation; evidence based policy making; policy appraisal; policy assessment; regulatory impact assessment

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 84863767822     PISSN: 14615517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14615517.2012.663256     Document Type: Article

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