There Must Be End to Confusion: Policy Networks, Intellectual Fatigue, and the Need for Political Science Methods Courses in British Universities
Political StudiesPublished 1 March 2001
Keith Dowding
Citations148
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Keith Dowding's critique of the network approach … might yet turn out to be a watershed finally marking the intellectual fatigue of policy community and network analysis in Britain.' (Richardson 1999, pp. 198–9) If only!
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