The Logic of Appropriateness

The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  March, James G ^a   Olsen, Johan P ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARENA Center for European Studies   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Contemporary democratic settings; Democratic political orders; Logics of action; Rule based action; Rule driven behaviour; Rules of appropriateness; Slippage; Standards of appropriateness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925852627     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548453.003.0034     Document Type: Chapter

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