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Book Review

Comparative policy agendas: a review essay

Policy agendas in Australia, by Keith Dowding and Aaron Martin, Basel, Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland, 2017, 263 pp., EU€83.29, ISBN: 978-3-31940-805-7 (eBook)Comparative policy agendas: theory, tools, data, by Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Grossman Emiliano, Oxford, OUP Oxford, 2019, 405 pp., AU$118.74 (hbk), ISBN: 978-0-19883-533-2

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Pages 228-237 | Accepted 17 Feb 2020, Published online: 02 May 2020

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