Promoting the good life and preventing the bad: what impact does the language used in legislation have on the provision of life-changing public services? a natural experiment of homelessness provision in England and Wales
What are the consequences of including adjectives in legislation? Presenting a difference-in-differences analysis of a natural experiment, this paper demonstrates that the word ‘vulnerable’ had a strong and statistically significant effect on homelessness provision in England after 2002. When compar...
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Political Studies Association
2018
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