Policymaking by Other Means: Do States Use Administrative Barriers to Limit Access to Medicaid?

Administration and Society

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 497-524

  Moynihan, Donald P ^a   Herd, Pamela ^a   Ribgy, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

administrative rules; citizen state interaction; social policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962124734     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: 15523039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399713503540     Document Type: Article

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