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Up from the Streets: Handler and the Ambiguities of Empowerment and Dependency

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Handler Joel F.. Down from Bureaucracy : The Ambiguity of Privatization and Empowerment. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 269. $29.95 cloth in U.S.; £23.00 cloth in U.K. and Europe.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Julie A. White  and
John Gilliom
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , Winter 1998 , pp. 203 - 222
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1998 

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