Administering Success: The Legitimacy Imperative and the Implementation of Welfare Reform

Social Problems

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-29

  Rogers Dillon, Robin H ^a,c   Skrentny, John David ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0002192184     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3097159     Document Type: Article

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