Civil service reform in Georgia: A view from the trenches

Civil Service Reform in the States: Personnel Policy and Politics at the Subnational Level

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 117-144

  Nigro, Lloyd G ^a   Edward Kellough, J ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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