Street-Level Bureaucrats and the Welfare State: Toward a Micro-Institutionalist Theory of Policy Implementation

Administration and Society

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1038-1062

  Rice, Deborah ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

activation; micro institutionalism; policy implementation; social policy; welfare governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890417104     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: 15523039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399712451895     Document Type: Article

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