Introduction: The quest for quality as a challenge to scientific policy advice: An overdue debate?

The Politics of Scientific Advice: Institutional Design for Quality Assurance

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3-18

  Lentsch, Justus ^a   Weingart, Peter ^b  

^a Heinrich Boll Foundation   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84923537235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511777141.001     Document Type: Chapter

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