Choice in public services: ‘no choice but to choose’

Modernising the Welfare State: The Blair Legacy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 179-197

  Needham, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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