Explaining science-led policy-making: pandemic deaths, epistemic deliberation and ideational trajectories
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عنوان ژورنال: Policy Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0032-2687,1573-0891
DOI: 10.1007/s11077-016-9264-y