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Jeffrey L. Brudney, F. Ted Hebert, Deil S. Wright, Reinventing Government in the American States: Measuring and Explaining Administrative Reform, Public Administration Review, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 1999), pp. 19-30
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