Practising political care ethics: Can responsive evaluation foster democratic care?

Ethics and Social Welfare

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 164-182

  Visse, Merel ^a   Abma, Tineke ^b   Widdershoven, Guy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deliberation; Political care ethics; Responsive evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971537124     PISSN: 17496535     EISSN: 17496543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17496535.2015.1005550     Document Type: Article

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