Policymaking as political constraint: Institutional development in the U.S. social security program

Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 94-131

  Jacobs, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511806414.006     Document Type: Chapter

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