Coordination as a political problem in coordinated market economies

Governance

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-42

  Thelen, Kathleen ^a   Kume, Ikuo ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 33645120888     PISSN: 09521895     EISSN: 14680491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2006.00302.x     Document Type: Article

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