Bridging the academic–policy-making gap: practice and policy issues

Public Money and Management

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 187-194

  Talbot, Carole ^a   Talbot, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Open policy making; Research Excellence Framework REF ; research utilization models; theory practice gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925013152     PISSN: 09540962     EISSN: 14679302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540962.2015.1027491     Document Type: Article

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