Experiment-based policy making or conscious policy design? The case of urban housing reform in China

Policy Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 321-337

  Mei, Ciqi ^a   Liu, Zhilin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Policy change; Policy design; Policy experimentation

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HOUSING REFORM; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; POLICY REFORM; URBAN HOUSING; URBAN PLANNING;

CHINA;

EID: 84906066636     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-013-9185-y     Document Type: Article

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