Bureaucratie Red Tape and Formalization: Untangling Conceptual Knots

American Review of Public Administration

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1996, Pages

  Bozeman, Barry ^a   Scott, Patrick ^b,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c US Depts Comm Housing Urban D

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