The Determinants of Public Policy: What Matters and How Much.
This article is a research synthesis addressing four questions critical to our understanding of the determinants of public policy. How often and how strongly do hypothetical determinants of policy—public opinion, interest groups, the party balance, and other factors—actually influence policy? Do som...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 87 - 111 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2020
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