The role of ideas and institutional change in Finnish public sector reform

Policy and politics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-191

  Niemelä, Mikko ^a   Saarinen, Arttu ^a,b  

^a SOCIAL INSURANCE INSTITUTION   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finland; Ideas; Policy change; Public sector

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; IDEOLOGY; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POLICY REFORM; PUBLIC SECTOR;

FINLAND;

EID: 84865131056     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: 14708442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/147084411X581871     Document Type: Article

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