Successful Diffusion of a Failed Policy: The case of pay-for-performance in the US federal government

Public Management Review

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 763-781

  Park, Seejeen ^a   Berry, Frances ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

civil service reform; Pay for performance; policy diffusion; public service motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903300948     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2012.750835     Document Type: Article

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