Representative Bureaucracy and Partisanship: The Implementation of Election Law

Public Administration Review

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 242-252

  Kropf, Martha ^a   Vercellotti, Timothy ^b   Kimball, David C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

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EID: 84874014809     PISSN: 00333352     EISSN: 15406210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02654.x     Document Type: Article

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