Policy Change, Policy Feedback, and Interest Mobilization: The Politics of Nuclear Waste Management.
Many of the leading theories of the policy process are aimed at providing insights into the factors that make policy change more (or less) likely. In general, policy change is seen as a result of shifting dynamics within policy subsystems. However, building on theories of policy feedback and interes...
| Published in: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 51 - 71 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2016
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