Representative Bureaucracy, Ethnicity, and Public Schools: Examining the Link Between Representation and Performance

Administration & Society

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 497-526

  Pitts, David W ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

diversity; ethnicity; representative bureaucracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749132398     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399707303129     Document Type: Article

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