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Theoretical and Procedural Aspects of the Evaluation of Public Policies

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Laws are the result of a political process, the purpose of which is to intervene in and to regulate areas of social life and activity. They are therefore, like any public policy, programme or action, open to evaluation.

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    Alberto Muñoz Arenas

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    Adán Nieto Martín

  2. School of Law and Social Sciences, University of Castillo-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Marta Muñoz de Morales Romero

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Arenas, A.M. (2016). Theoretical and Procedural Aspects of the Evaluation of Public Policies. In: Nieto Martín, A., Muñoz de Morales Romero, M. (eds) Towards a Rational Legislative Evaluation in Criminal Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32895-9_1

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