Agency escape: Decentralization or dominance of the European commission in the modernization of competition policy?

Governance

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 431-452

  Wilks, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 22544450234     PISSN: 09521895     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2005.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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