Welfare reform policy from Nixon to Clinton: What role for social science?

Social Science and Policy-Making: A Search for Relevance in the Twentieth Century

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 137-164

  Danziger, Sheldon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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