Policy failure and corruption in Belgium: Is federalism to blame?

West European Politics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 999-1017

  Maesschalck, Jeroen ^a   Van de Walle, Steven ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; FEDERAL SYSTEM; POLICY STRATEGY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; REGIONAL POLITICS;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751173604     PISSN: 01402382     EISSN: 17439655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402380600968877     Document Type: Article

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