The Triumph of Loyalty Over Competence: The Bush Administration and the Exhaustion of the Politicized Presidency

Public Administration Review

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 572-581

  Moynihan, Donald P ^a   Roberts, Alasdair S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77955143652     PISSN: 00333352     EISSN: 15406210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02178.x     Document Type: Article

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