Do Street‐Level Bureaucrats Discriminate Based on Religion? A Large‐Scale Correspondence Experiment among American Public School Principals.
Although public administration scholars have long studied discrimination on the basis of race/ethnicity, class, and gender, little to no research exists on whether street‐level bureaucrats provide differential services based on the religious identity of their constituents. This article reports the r...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 81; no. 2; pp. 244 - 260 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2021
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