The administration of transformation: A case study of implementing welfare reform in the UK

Administering Welfare Reform: International Transformations in Welfare Governance

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 161-182

  Wright, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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