Rethinking the unthinkable: Reply to Durant, Goodsell, Knott, and Murray on "A case for spoils" in federal personnel management

Administration and Society

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-12

  Maranto, Robert ^a  

^a Federal Executive Institute   (United States)

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EID: 0032357610     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009539979803000101     Document Type: Article

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