Extracting ideal point estimates from actors' preferences in the EU constitutional negotiations

European Union Politics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 353-376

  Hix, Simon ^a   Crombez, Christophe ^b,c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Conference; EU constitutional Treaty; Factor analysis; Ideal point estimation; Intergovernmental; NOMINATE

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244433514     PISSN: 14651165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1465116505054837     Document Type: Review

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