Making Marriage Promotion into Public Policy: The Epistemic Culture of a Statewide Initiative

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 385-406

  Heath, Melanie ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epistemic culture; Knowledge; Marriage promotion; Public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869111833     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-012-9236-2     Document Type: Article

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