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100			_aBaker, K. Rubin, E. V. Weinberg, S. and Stout, C.T. _950396
245			_aWhat's representation got to do with it? Comparing public reactions to diversity among government employees and government contractors
260			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
300			_a 90(4), Dec, 2024: p.810-829
520			_aThe literature on representative bureaucracy is largely focused on government agencies and little attention has been paid to representation within private sector contractors providing services on behalf of government. A survey experiment, administered on a nationally representative panel collected by YouGov, is used to assess whether the public evaluates the distributive justice of government programs differently if the programs are implemented by either contractors or government officials, and whether this changes when the public is provided information on the diversity of those actors. We find that perceptions of distributive justice are no different with government or contractor delivery, nor do they change in response to diversity information. The findings imply that perceptions of distributive justice may only vary between contractors and government, and in response to diversity information, when the public are presented with information about program failure or obvious inequities.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00208523241247453
650			_aRepresentative bureaucracy, Distributive justice, Government contractors. _950397
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
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