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Marc Allen Eisner, Kenneth J. Meier, Presidential Control versus Bureaucratic Power: Explaining the Reagan Revolution in Antitrust, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Feb., 1990), pp. 269-287
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