Taking the brandeis metaphor seriously: Policy experimentation within a federal system

Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 256-281

  Rom, Mark Carl ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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