Regulating Europarties: Cross-party coalitions capitalizing on incomplete contracts

Party Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 515-534

  Johansson, Karl Magnus ^a   Raunio, Tapio ^b  

^a SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Political Science and International Relations ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Constitution; Europarties; Incomplete contracts; Institutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944581729     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068805054978     Document Type: Article

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