Unraveling Representative Bureaucracy: A Systematic Analysis of the Literature

Administration and Society

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 395-421

  Kennedy, Brandy ^a  

^a GEORGIA COLLEGE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

active representation; passive representation; representative bureaucracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898683831     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: 15523039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399712459724     Document Type: Article

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