Overseas and over here: Policy transfer and evidence-based policy-making

Policy Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 329-348

  Legrand, Timothy ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

evidence based policy; policy analysis; policy learning; policy transfer; welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863849375     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: 14701006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2012.695945     Document Type: Article

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