Working environment and 'soft law' in the post-communist new member states

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 195-215

  Woolfson, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33645126793     PISSN: 00219886     EISSN: 14685965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2006.00619.x     Document Type: Review

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