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This article surveys the policy feedback framework developed in political science and
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This article offers two theoretical contributions. First, we develop the concept of
administrative burden as an important variable in understanding how citizens experience …

Book Reviews 941 public and that have turned the Weberian concept of bureaucracy into a
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The new edition of Cops, Teachers, Counselors furthers the exploration of forces that shape
the contours of frontline work. This line of inquiry is at the heart of street-level bureaucracy …

This article proposes that understanding public employee use of performance information is
perhaps the most pressing challenge for scholarship on performance management …

The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public
administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors survey a …