Government checking government: How performance measures expand distributive politics

Journal of Politics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 545-558

  Bertelli, Anthony M ^a   John, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77951214899     PISSN: 00223816     EISSN: 14682508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002238160999082X     Document Type: Article

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56. Peter John is the Hallsworth Chair of Governance at the Institute for Political and Economic Governance, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, M13 9PL. Anthony Bertelli is the C.C. Crawford Chair in Management and Performance at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089.