Are street-level bureaucrafts compelled or enticed to cope?

Public Administration

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 861-889

  Nielsen, Vibeke Lehmann ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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BUREAUCRACY; COPING STRATEGY; EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 33750824323     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2006.00616.x     Document Type: Article

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