Resisting Charters: A Comparative Policy Development Analysis of Washington and Kentucky, 2002–2012

Sociology of Education

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 223-240

  Johnston, Joseph B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

charter schools; comparative historical; discursive institutionalism; policy development; political sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907243366     PISSN: 00380407     EISSN: 19398573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038040714546756     Document Type: Article

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