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- ↑ Christopher Hood (30 March 2000). The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management. Oxford University Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-19-829765-9 . Retrieved 15 December 2012.
- ↑ "Woodrow Wilson on Administration" . Retrieved 2012-12-15.
