Testing pendleton's premise: Do political appointees make worse bureaucrats?

Journal of Politics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1073-1088

  Lewis, David E ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 35348915323     PISSN: 00223816     EISSN: 14682508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2508.2007.00608.x     Document Type: Article

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