Support for performance-based funding: The role of political ideology, performance, and dysfunctional information environments

Public Administration Review

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 761-774

  Rabovsky, Thomas ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84911422933     PISSN: 00333352     EISSN: 15406210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/puar.12274     Document Type: Article

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