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Policy Implementation, Street-level Bureaucracy, and the Importance of Discretion

Lars Tummers Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Victor Bekkers Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR, Rotterdam, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 527-547 | Published online: 05 Nov 2013

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