Some Ceilings Have More Cracks: Representative Bureaucracy in Federal Regulatory Agencies

American Review of Public Administration

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-71

  Smith, Amy E ^a   Monaghan, Karen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; leadership; regulation; representative bureaucracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870730495     PISSN: 02750740     EISSN: 15523357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0275074011420997     Document Type: Article

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