Almost Random Careers: The Wisconsin School Superintendency, 1940-1972.

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• Publication year

  1977

• Venue

  Administrative Science Quarterly

• Publication date

  1977-09-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Education

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  DOI 10.2307/2392180
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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