Changing modes of service delivery: How past choices structure future choices

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 127-143

  Brown, Trevor L ^a   Potoski, Matthew ^b   Van Slyke, David M ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DECISION MAKING; PANEL DATA; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; PUBLIC GOODS; SERVICE PROVISION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41449102038     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c0633     Document Type: Article

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