Administrative procedures and bureaucratic performance: Is federal rule-making "ossified"?

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 261-282

  Yackee, Jason Webb ^a   Yackee, Susan Webb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 77950539654     PISSN: 10531858     EISSN: 14779803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jopart/mup011     Document Type: Article

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