Great Expectations: Can Social Science Evaluate New Labour's Policies?

Evaluation

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 305-330

  Walker, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; effective evaluation; evidence based policy; politics; Welfare to Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937339895     PISSN: 13563890     EISSN: 14617153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13563890122209702     Document Type: Article

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