Street-level Bureaucrats, Administrative Power and the Manipulation of Federal Social Security Disability Programs

State Politics & Policy Quarterly

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 144-164

  Keiser, Lael R ^a  

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EID: 84993737923     PISSN: 15324400     EISSN: 19461607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153244000100100202     Document Type: Article

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