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What We Have Learned and the Way Forward

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Representative Bureaucracy and Performance

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This chapter discusses the study’s limitations and its implications for researchers, policymakers, and public managers.

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Fernandez, S. (2020). What We Have Learned and the Way Forward. In: Representative Bureaucracy and Performance. Executive Politics and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32134-5_8

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