The street-level bureaucrats of elections: Selection methods for local election officials

Review of Policy Research

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1257-1268

  Kimball, David C ^a   Kropf, Martha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; ELECTION; METHODOLOGY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33751054827     PISSN: 1541132X     EISSN: 15411338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00258.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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