Explaining Hungary's powerful Constitutional Court: A bargaining approach

Archives Europeennes de Sociologie

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 357-390

  Schiemann, John W ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0347667447     PISSN: 00039756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003975601001023     Document Type: Review

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