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Mary Maureen Brown, Jeffrey L. Brudney, A "Smarter, Better, Faster, and Cheaper" Government: Contracting and Geographic Information Systems, Public Administration Review, Vol. 58, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 1998), pp. 335-345
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