When Policies Undo Themselves: Self-Undermining Feedback as a Source of Policy Change

Governance

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 441-457

  Jacobs, Alan M ^a   Weaver, R Kent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84941747212     PISSN: 09521895     EISSN: 14680491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gove.12101     Document Type: Article

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