Are Policy Entrepreneurs Really Decisive in Achieving Policy Change? Drought Policy in the USA and Australia

Australian Journal of Politics and History

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-112

  Botterill, Linda Courtenay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

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EID: 84875776424     PISSN: 00049522     EISSN: 14678497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajph.12006     Document Type: Article

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