Street-level bureaucrats and the implementation of public policy

Handbook of Public Administration: Concise Paperback Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 153-164

  Meyers, Marcia K ^a   Vorsanger, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9780857020970.n13     Document Type: Chapter

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