Market mobilities/immobilities: mutation, path-dependency, and the spread of charter school policies in the United States

Critical Studies in Education

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 168-186

  Cohen, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charter schools; education markets; immobilities; path dependency; policy mobilities; policy mutation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992145965     PISSN: 17508487     EISSN: 17508495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1242507     Document Type: Article

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