A return to spoils: The wrong solution for the right problem

Administration and Society

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 660-669

  Knott, Jack H ^a  

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EID: 0032345210     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009539979802900606     Document Type: Article

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