"Sustainability state" in the making? Institutionalization of sustainability in German federal policy making

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2623-2641

  Heinrichs, Harald ^a   Laws, Norman ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Democracy; Governance; Institution; Qualitative research; Sustainability state

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM; BUREAUCRACY; DEMOCRACY; FEDERAL SYSTEM; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLICY MAKING; POLITICAL CHANGE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY;

GERMANY;

EID: 84902977720     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6052623     Document Type: Article

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