Evidence and policy: discourses, meanings and practices

Policy Sciences

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 339-344

  Wesselink, Anna ^a   Colebatch, Hal ^b   Pearce, Warren ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84912568200     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: 15730891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-014-9209-2     Document Type: Editorial

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