Soft craft, hard choices, altered context: Reflections on twenty-five years of policy advice in Canada

Policy Analysis in Canada: The State of the Art

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 163-185

  Prince, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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