‘Policy experiments’: Policy making, implementation and learning

Community Health and Wellbeing: Action Research on Health Inequalities

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 23-48

  Cropper, Steve ^a   Goodwin, Mark ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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