Look for the Silver Lining: When Performance-Based Accountability Systems Work

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 469-490

  Moynihan, Donald P ^a   Ingraham, Patricia W ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0242593071     PISSN: 7653697     EISSN: 1782155X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jopart/mug032     Document Type: Review

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