Personnel reform in the states: A look at progress fifteen years after the Winter Commission

Public Administration Review

Volumn 68, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Nigro, Lloyd G ^a   Kellough, J Edward ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 54349127204     PISSN: 00333352     EISSN: 15406210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.00978.x     Document Type: Review

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