At-will employment: Origins, applications, exceptions, and expansions in public service

American Public Service: Radical Reform and the Merit System

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 47-74

  Gertz, Sally C ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85082275617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315097336-4     Document Type: Chapter

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