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New Frontiers of Public Administration: The Practice of Theory and the Theory of Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2008

Laurence E. Lynn
Affiliation:
University of Chicago

Extract

The 2007 John Gaus Lecture was presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, on August 31, 2007.

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