Debt and Deception: How States Avoid Making Hard Fiscal Decisions

Public Administration Review

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 659-667

  Bifulco, Robert ^a   Bunch, Beverly ^b   Duncombe, William ^a   Robbins, Mark ^c   Simonsen, William ^c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 84865360965     PISSN: 00333352     EISSN: 15406210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02533.x     Document Type: Article

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