Holders of the purse strings: Governance and performance of public retirement systems

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2000, Pages

  Useem, Michael ^a   Mitchell, Olivia S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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