Institutional strangulation: Bureaucratic politics and financial reform in the Obama administration

Perspectives on Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 825-846

  Carpenter, Daniel ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77957760077     PISSN: 15375927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1537592710002070     Document Type: Article

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