Presidents, bureaucracy, and housing discrimination policy: The Fair Housing Acts of 1968 and 1988

Politics and Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-149

  Lamb, Charles M ^a   Wilk, Eric M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; CIVIL RIGHTS; HOUSING POLICY; HOUSING PROVISION; STATE ROLE;

EID: 58849099628     PISSN: 15555623     EISSN: 17471346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2008.00164.x     Document Type: Article

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