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Bureaucratic Discretion and the National Health Service Corps
Frank J. Thompson draws on the experience of the National Health Service Corps to show how vague laws and limited oversight can at times foster the benign evolution of public programs. He specifies some conditions under which greater bureaucratic discretion can yield positive program developments.
Financing Medicaid: Federalism and the Growth of America’s Health Care Safety Net, Shanna Rose Reviewed by Frank J. Thompson
Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy, Lawrence D. Brown Reviewed by Frank J. Thompson
The Politics of Urban Personnel Policy: Reformers, Politicians and Bureaucrats, Wilbur C. Rich Reviewed by Frank J. Thompson
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