Kingdom of Belgium

Constitutional Origins, Structure, and Change in Federal Democracies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 49-75

  Deschouwer, Kris ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

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16. Translated in Poirier, "Formal Mechanisms," 36.
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